bush balladry

Noun

bush balladry (uncountable)

1. bush ballads, collectively.
   • Lawson, embittered by personal hardship, concentrated on the harsher aspects of the bush, and the democratic feeling evident in much of the bush balladry became in his verse an emphasis on social injustice which, however warranted, was not on the whole a characteristic of life outback.1957, Frederick Thomas Bennett Macartney, A Historical Outline of Australian Literature, page 17
   • Side by side with the romantic strain, however, has run a notable variety of realistic poetry, expressing itself in three distinct forms: the bush balladry, both folk and literary; humour and satire; and modern intellectualist realism.1971, Tom Inglis Moore, Social Patterns in Australian Literature, page 128