Bill & Doreen's Courtship (Selections from "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke")
Author: first_name: C. J.
last_name: Dennis
Language: English
Year: 1915

"The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke" is a verse novel by Australian novelist and poet C. J. Dennis. The work was first published in book form in 1915 and sold over 60,000 copies in nine editions within the first year.  A special pocket edition was even printed for the Australian soldiers in the trenches during the Great War.
"The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke" tells the story of Bill, a larrikin of the Little Lonsdale Street push, who is introduced to a young woman by the name of Doreen. The book c