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POETRY

132. Anon, A Treasury of Colonial Poetry. Milson’s Pt: Currawong Press, 1982. No author or editor given – poor edition, with several errors of spelling and fact. Poems from 36: “Something,” “The Kangaroo Hunt,” “The Sheep Shearers,” “Spring Morning,” “Gordon’s Grave.” Also “Love and Death,” presumably taken from one of Bertram Stevens’s collections (142 and 143), which used a manuscript of the poem, pp. 10-12.

133. Hansen, M.P. & D. McLachlan, eds, An Austral Garden. Melbourne: George Robertson, 1921. Poems from 38-43: “A Death at Sea (Coral Sea, Australia)” p. 285.

134. Jordan, Richard D. & Peter Pierce, eds. The Poet’s Discovery: Nineteenth Century Australia in Verse. Melbourne: MUP, 1990. Poems from 36: “The Kangaroo Hunt,” “The Sheep Shearers,” pp. 212-13.

135. Lavatar, Louis. The Sonnet in Australia. Melbourne: Edward A. Vidler, 1926. Includes “Dai Butsu” (38-43), p. 152.

136. McQueen, J. & T. Scott, Oxford Book of Scottish Verse (Oxford: OUP, 1966). Poems from 38-43: “William Wallace (For the Ballarat statue of him),” “Jesus,” “To the Christians,” “Hagar,” “Evening Hymn in the Hovels,” pp. 456-59.

137. Pizer, Marjorie, ed. Freedom on the Wallaby: Poems of the Australian People (Sydney: Pinchgut Press, [1953]). Poems from 38-43: “A Death at Sea (Coral Sea, Australia),” “Art” (the second of the two poems with this title in 38-43), “Evening Hymn in the Hovels,” “Post-Mortem” (not the poem of this name in 36, but the poem beginning “Bury me with clenched hands” which was used as FA’s epitaph and added to the 1894 posthumous edition of Songs, 41), pp. 56-58.

138. Salt, H.S., ed & introd. Songs of Freedom. The Canterbury Poets. London & NY: Walter Scott, [1895]. Preface discusses FA as a socialist poet. Poems reprinted from 38-43: “Outside London,” “In Trafalgar Square,” “‘Anarchism’,” “To England,” pp. 333-35.

139. Sladen, Douglas, ed. Australian Poets 1788-1888: Being a Selection of Poems upon all subjects written in Australia and New Zealand during the first century of British Colonization. Introd A. P. Martin. London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, 1888. Poems from 36:”Love’s Light and Tune,” “Agnosta,” “World-Wounded,” “Dance-song,” pp. 1-2.

140. Sladen, Douglas B[rooke] W[heeldon], ed. A Century of Australian Song. London: Walter Scott, 1888. Enlarged edition of Australian Ballads and Rhymes. Introduction discusses FA’s work, pp. 3, 24. Poems reprinted from 36: “The Sheep Shearers,” “Spring Morning,” “The Kangaroo Hunt,” pp. 35-38.

141. Stable, J.J. & A.E.N. Kirkwood, eds, A Book of Queensland Verse (Brisbane: Queensland Book Depot, 1924). Poems from 36: “Approach,” “Night,” “Agnosta,” pp. 32-33.

142. Stevens, Bertram, ed. An Anthology of Australian Verse (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1906). Poems reprinted from 36: “Something,” “Gordon’s Grave,” “To A.L. Gordon,” also “Love and Death” (from ms).

143. Stevens, Bertram, ed. The Golden Treasury of Australian Verse. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1909. Poems reprinted from 36: “Gordon’s Grave,” “The Decision,” also “Love and Death” (from ms), pp. 137-39.

144. Turner, Ian, ed. & introd. The Australian Dream: A Collection of Anticipations about Australia from Captain Cook to the Present Day. Melbourne: Sun Books, 1968. “Fling out the Flag” For the Australian Labour Federation (from 41, originally published in Worker 1 March 1890:4), pp. 181-83.

ESSAYS AND PROSE EXCERPTS

145. Bell, Mackenzie. Half Hours with Representative Novelists of the Nineteenth Century. London: George Routledge, 1927. 3 vols. Vol. 1. “Australian Cities” (excerpt from 5, pp. 106-10) pp. 78, 95-97. 95-7.

146. Hadgraft, Cecil, ed. The Australian Short Story before Lawson. Melbourne: OUP, 1986. “Miss Jackson,” “Long Forster” from 7, pp. 221-36.

147. Kramer, Leonie, ed and introd. My Country: Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years. Sydney: Lansdowne, 1985. “Lily Davenant,” “Miss Jackson” from 7, pp. 166-78.

148. Webby, Elizabeth, ed. Colonial Voices. St. Lucia: UQP, 1989.

149. “Melbourne and Her Civilization,” from 80, 81, 82, pp. 277-84.

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