Finish of Style single work   poetry   "A last fine touch will add to, not diminish"
  • Author:agent Charles Harpur http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/harpur-charles
First known date: 1856 Issue Details: First known date: 1856... 1856 Finish of Style
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    y separately published work icon The Empire no. 2025 3 July 1857 Z1732706 1857 newspaper issue 1857 pg. 5
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    y separately published work icon The Empire no. 2157 4 December 1857 Z1735566 1857 newspaper issue 1857 pg. 4
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    y separately published work icon The Empire no. 3375 31 July 1862 Z1723198 1862 newspaper issue 1862 pg. 8
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Epigraph: 'Who casts to write/ A living line, must strike the second heat/ Upon the Muse's anvil.' Ben Jonson
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    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. 352-353
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