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Issue Details: First known date: 1959... 1959 The Queensland Centenary Anthology
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Contents

* Contents derived from the London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,: Melbourne, Victoria,:Longmans , 1959 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Earliest Writings of Queensland, F. W. Robinson , single work essay

'A national literature implies something much more than a collection of informative books about a land and its people. It must reflect the spirit of the land, of the people ; it must interpret and illuminate facts. It requires the activity of the creative imagination and the power to give artistic form to its creations. None the less, it would be foolish to ignore the importance of factual writings, especially in the beginnings of a separate community which, one hopes, will achieve an individual character and an individual expression in literature and in all the arts. Without the story, the history, the legend, the tale of a man's life, and other fact-records an artistic literature could not arise. ' (Introduction)
 

 (p. 1-8)
Colonization, John Dunmore Lang , single work prose (p. 9-10)
Queenslandi"Queensland! thou art a land of pest:", Philip Durham Lorimer , single work poetry (p. 11)
Queenslandi"Thou art in sooth a lovely land,", Mary Eva O'Doherty , single work poetry (p. 12)
Men! Be Workers!i"Men of Queensland! up, be doing!", single work poetry (p. 13)
A Queensland Ballad, George Vowles , single work poetry (p. 14)
The Night Watchi"The 'boss' has turned in and is fast asleep,", Frederic Charles Urquhart , single work poetry (p. 16-17)
Aboriginal Customs, Tom Petrie , single work prose (p. 18)
The Loss of the 'Sovereign', single work prose (p. 21-23)
The Last of Six, Delcomyn , single work short story
A Trepang fisherman near Cooktown encounters survivors of prison break from New Caledonia, including a woman, her dead husband, and the corpse of the man she says murdered her husband and also practiced cannibalism. The corpse keeps returning with the tide.
 (p. 24-28)
Our First Harvest, 'Steele Rudd' , single work short story (p. 29-30)
Broke and Happy, Randolph Bedford , extract autobiography (p. 31-37)
The Dominioni"She is not yet; but he whose ear", J. Brunton Stephens , single work poetry (p. 38-39)
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with title : The Dominion of Australia
Queen of the Northi"Stand forth, O Daughter of the Sun,", George Essex Evans , extract poetry (p. 40)
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with title: Stand Forth, O Daughter of the Sun
The Women of the Westi"They left the vine-wreathed cottage and the mansion on the hill,", George Essex Evans , single work poetry (p. 41)
Where the Pelican Builds Her Nest Where the Pelican Buildsi"The horses were ready, the rails were down,", Mary Hannay Foott , single work poetry (p. 42)
The South-Sea Islanderi"Far away in the coral sea-isles", Arthur A. D. Bayldon , single work poetry (p. 43)
There Was a Day!i"There was a day, when insolently gay,", Peter Austen , single work poetry (p. 44)
Australiai"New land they call me, yet grey-old am I,", Lance Fallaw , single work poetry (p. 44)
Meditationi"Would you have music? Leave the care", Emily Coungeau , single work poetry (p. 45)
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