Animal Human Beauty single work   poetry   "I knew a Youth, in feature and in form"
  • Author:agent Charles Harpur http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/harpur-charles
First known date: 1850 Issue Details: First known date: 1850... 1850 Animal Human Beauty
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Notes

  • Author's note: I will conclude this section, by annexing, as a sort of companion piece to the portraiture immediately above, [the poem 'The Terrors of Beauty'] some fugitive lines on/ 'Animal Human Beauty'

    Source: Charles Harpur, 'The Beautiful', The Empire (12 September 1856): 5

  • This poem appears in a number of versions from 1850 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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Notes:
Comprises 15 lines.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Empire no. 1773 12 September 1856 Z1729232 1856 newspaper issue 1856 pg. 5
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Poetical Works of Charles Harpur Charles Harpur , Elizabeth Perkins (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1984 Z459555 1984 selected work poetry satire 'This collection represents one version of almost every poem written by Charles Harpur, with the omission of some translations and paraphrases. The verse drama, "Stalwart the Bushranger", and the fragments of the dramatic poem "King Saul" are not included. ... The collection is edited from Harpur's manuscript poems held in the Mitchell Library, Sydney, and from printed copies in colonial newspapers when no manuscript version existed.' (Preface) Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1984 pg. 155-156
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The Terrors of Beauty i "Thy airy gait, and form divine", Charles Harpur , 1846 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser , 18 November 1846; (p. 4)
— Appears in: The Empire , 12 September no. 1773 1856; (p. 5) The Poetical Works of Charles Harpur 1984; (p. 154-155)
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