A Thorough Woolgatherer single work   poetry   satire   "Sure Cumberland, at length, must feel ashamed"
Is part of Sonnets Dedicated to Australian Senators Charles Harpur , 1845 sequence poetry
Issue Details: First known date: 1845... 1845 A Thorough Woolgatherer
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'On Charles Cowper.' (Webby)

Notes

  • Cowper was the Legislative Council representative for the County of Cumberland from 1843 to 1850.
    • Number ten in the sequence 'Sonnets Dedicated to Australian Senators'.
    • Numbering changed for publication in The Poetical Works of Charles Harpur; numbered seven in the sequence in this source.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Alternative title: A Thorough Woolgatherer
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature vol. 4 no. 86 15 March 1845 Z597781 1845 newspaper issue 1845 pg. 123
    Note:
    • Epigraph: An I may do it in a mask, let me play the Lion too. - Bully Bottom
    • Epigraph: A Clerk foredoom'd all common sense to cross / Who draws a Bill up while he should engross. - Adapted from Pope
    • Poem untitled in this source.
  • 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. 604
    Note:
    • Epigraph: Let me play the lion too. - Bully Bottom
    • Epigraph: A clerk foredoomed all common sense to cross, / Who draws a Bill up while he should engross. - Adapted from Pope
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