Australasia : A Poem Written for the Chancellor's Medal at the Cambridge Commencement, July, 1823 single work   poetry   "Land of my birth! tho' now, alas! no more"
Note: Beneath Wentworth's name, signed: An Australasian, Fellow-Commoner of Saint Peter's College.
Issue Details: First known date: 1823... 1823 Australasia : A Poem Written for the Chancellor's Medal at the Cambridge Commencement, July, 1823
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Notes

  • Dedication: To Major General Macquarie, late Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of New South Wales and Its Dependencies [followed by a letter commencing 'My dear Sir...' (pp. 9-13)]
  • Epigraph: 'En unquam patrios longo post tempore fines, / Pauperis et tuguri congestum cespite culmen / Post aliquot mea regna videns mirabor aristas?'

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— Appears in: Antithesis , vol. 3 no. 2 1990; (p. 125-156)
Charles Harpur for a New Generation Michael Ackland , 1984 single work criticism
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