Victor Daley
Daley, Victor
(real name of Creeve Roe). Born Sept. 5, 1858, in Navan, Ireland; died Dec. 29, 1905, in Waitara, near Sydney. Australian romantic poet.
Daley lived in Australia from 1878. He was a clerk and gold prospector; later he became a journalist. His literary career is connected with the Bulletin and Tocsin, democratic journals in which he published his satirical and lyrical-philosophical poems, sonnets, and ballads.
He wrote the verse collections At Dawn and Dusk (1898). and Wine and Roses (published in 1911).
WORKS
Creeve Roe. Sydney, 1947.In Russian translation:
“Zov goroda.” In the collection Poeziia Avstralii. [Moscow, 1967.]