Digger Smith
by C. J. Dennis
'Digger Smith' Summary
Digger Smith is a series of narrative poems about an Australian soldier returning home from the Great War. He has lost a leg and has "ANZAC eyes" - what a later war would call "The Thousand Yard Stare". Despite his post-traumatic stress disorder, Digger Smith sets about ministering to everybody's troubles but his own - his internal conviction that his amputee status will make him seem "half a man" in the eyes of the lady love he left behind when he went off to the War.Book Details
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C. J. Dennis
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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis was an Australian poet known for his humorous poems, especially "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke", published in the early 20th century. Though Dennis's work i...
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