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Epigraphs:
- The climate's delicate; the air most sweet; / Fertile the isle. - Winter's Tale.
- 'What,' replied Franklin, 'is the use of a new-born child? - It may become a man!'
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A poem in two numbered parts.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Picturesque Farming : The Sound of ‘Happy Britannia’ in Colonial Australia
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Cultural Studies Review , vol. 18 no. 3 2012; (p. 85-108) 'This essay examines the way in which the British landscape tradition influenced perceptions of sound, noise and silence in colonial Australia, focusing on representations of rural soundscape in art and literature. It argues that poets and artists attempted to recreate an image of Australia as a new 'Happy Britannia', a noisy society engaged in virtuous agricultural labour. But this image was opposed to the prevailing taste for picturesque landscape, which accorded little value to human activity and placed great emphasis on silent, rural scenery. Accordingly, colonial perceptions of soundscape were ambivalent, as human-produced noise was heard as both a sign of the progress of civilisation and an obstacle to the spread of cultural refinement.' (Author's abstract)
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The Rising Glory of Australia : Literary Nationalism and the Epic Poem
1986
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Course of Empire : Neo-Classical Culture in New South Wales, 1788-1860 1986; (p. 120-153)
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Picturesque Farming : The Sound of ‘Happy Britannia’ in Colonial Australia
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Cultural Studies Review , vol. 18 no. 3 2012; (p. 85-108) 'This essay examines the way in which the British landscape tradition influenced perceptions of sound, noise and silence in colonial Australia, focusing on representations of rural soundscape in art and literature. It argues that poets and artists attempted to recreate an image of Australia as a new 'Happy Britannia', a noisy society engaged in virtuous agricultural labour. But this image was opposed to the prevailing taste for picturesque landscape, which accorded little value to human activity and placed great emphasis on silent, rural scenery. Accordingly, colonial perceptions of soundscape were ambivalent, as human-produced noise was heard as both a sign of the progress of civilisation and an obstacle to the spread of cultural refinement.' (Author's abstract)
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The Rising Glory of Australia : Literary Nationalism and the Epic Poem
1986
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Course of Empire : Neo-Classical Culture in New South Wales, 1788-1860 1986; (p. 120-153)
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