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This poem appears in a number of versions from 1856 onwards. For further details, see The Poems of Charles Harpur in Manuscript in the Mitchell Library and in Publication in the Nineteenth Century: An Analytical Finding List by Elizabeth Holt and Elizabeth Perkins (Canberra: Australian Scholarly Editions Centre, 2002).
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A prose version is published in the People's Advocate 20 September 1856.
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The Nevers of Poesy
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— Appears in: The Empire , 9 March no. 2238 1858; (p. 4-5)In 1858 Charles Harpur was drawn into an argument with Frank Fowler, the editor of the Month : A Literary and Critical Journal. J. Normington-Rawling in Charles Harpur, An Australian (Angus & Robertson, 1962): 226 writes that 'Harpur had allowed himself to be inveigled into the position of defending as poetry the writings of Henry Parkes. In doing so he chose to see the issue as one between colonists [Harpur] and immigrants [Fowler]...'
Harpur states in the column 'Mr. Fowler has come hither ... for the express purpose of founding for us natives a national literature, on a critical basis ; and ... I have thus put forth this particular piece [The Nevers of Poetry] ... as my contribution to the canonical foundation of it ...'
A version of Harpur's poem The Nevers of Poetry is published as part of the article. Four footnotes, all signed C. H., follow the poem and continue the argument.
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Note
The Nevers of Poesy
1858
single work
column
— Appears in: The Empire , 9 March no. 2238 1858; (p. 4-5)In 1858 Charles Harpur was drawn into an argument with Frank Fowler, the editor of the Month : A Literary and Critical Journal. J. Normington-Rawling in Charles Harpur, An Australian (Angus & Robertson, 1962): 226 writes that 'Harpur had allowed himself to be inveigled into the position of defending as poetry the writings of Henry Parkes. In doing so he chose to see the issue as one between colonists [Harpur] and immigrants [Fowler]...'
Harpur states in the column 'Mr. Fowler has come hither ... for the express purpose of founding for us natives a national literature, on a critical basis ; and ... I have thus put forth this particular piece [The Nevers of Poetry] ... as my contribution to the canonical foundation of it ...'
A version of Harpur's poem The Nevers of Poetry is published as part of the article. Four footnotes, all signed C. H., follow the poem and continue the argument.
