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Brereton was born in Sydney, the fifth son of John Le Gay Brereton (1827-1886), a well-known Sydney physician who published five volumes of verse between 1857 and 1887, and his wife Mary, née Tongue.
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Brereton was born in Sydney, the fifth son of John Le Gay Brereton (1827-1886), a well-known Sydney physician who published five volumes of verse between 1857 and 1887, and his wife Mary, née Tongue.
The younger Brereton was educated at Sydney Grammar School from 1881 and the University of Sydney where he graduated Bachelor (1894), reading English under Professor Sir Mungo MacCallum.
He was the first president of the Fellowship of Australian Writers when it was formed in Sydney in 1928. He was editor of Hermes, the student literary annual, and became the university"s chief librarian in 1915. Brereton had several occupations and continued his writing, in 1896 he published Perdita, A Sonnet Record, and The Song of Brotherhood and Other Verses.
The verse in Brereton"s earlier volumes was pleasant but not very distinguished, however, contained stronger work.
In 1909 his volume Elizabethan Drama Notes and Studies proclaimed him a scholar of unusual ability and knowledge, and his studies in this period stimulated him to write his one-act play in blank verse To-Morrow: A Dramatic Sketch of the Character and Environment of Robert Greene. This is possibly the best Australian poetical play of its period, and has the merit belonging to comparatively few Australian plays that it is actable.
World War I led to Brereton producing a slender volume of verse published in 1919, The Burning Marl, dedicated to "All who have fought nobly". In 1921 he was appointed professor of English literature at the University of Sydney.
Brereton produced a volume of poems, Swags Up, and a collection of his prose articles and stories was published under the title of.
The sketches of Henry Lawson and Dowell O"Reilly are of particular interest. His edition of Lust"s Dominion was sent to the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium in 1914 but was thought lost in the German invasion. lieutenant was finally published there in 1931.
So Long, Mick! a short one-act play in prose, was also published in 1931.
Brereton contributed many letters and poems on diverse subjects to the Sydney Morning Herald, often under the pseudonym "Basil Garstang". Brereton died suddenly on 2 February 1933 near Tamworth, New South Wales while on a caravan tour.
His prose work was interesting and sensitive, and the best of his verse gives him an assured place among Australian poets. He was entirely unselfish and did much for Lawson when he was most in need of friends.
Foreign at least part of his life, he was a disciple of Annie Besant.
Brereton Park in East Ryde is named in his honour.
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