Colonial Nomenclature extract   poetry   "'Twas said of Greece two thousand years ago,"
Issue Details: First known date: 1953... 1953 Colonial Nomenclature
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    y separately published work icon Freedom on the Wallaby : Poems of the Australian People Marjorie Pizer (editor), Sydney : Pinchgut Press , 1953 Z58626 1953 anthology poetry Sydney : Pinchgut Press , 1953 pg. 26-27
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    y separately published work icon My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years Leonie Kramer (editor), Sydney : Lansdowne , 1985 Z219820 1985 anthology poetry short story Sydney : Lansdowne , 1985 pg. 18
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    y separately published work icon Australian Verse : An Oxford Anthology John Leonard (editor), Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1998 Z461207 1998 anthology poetry (taught in 1 units) A thorough survey of poetry by Australians in English, beginning with a selection of contemporary work by younger poets, and going backward in time to the early colonial period. In addition to poems in the literary tradition, it indudes performance poetry, convict songs and old bush ballads. An extensive selection has been provided from the work of five major twentieth-century poets: Les Murray, Gwen Harwood, Judith Wright, A.D. Hope and Kenneth Slessor. Several features are provided to assist the reader: the date of first publication of each poem is provided; footnotes explain unfamiliar words and allusions; and brief biographical notes assist in locating each poet in his or her place in time. Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1998 pg. 389-390
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Colonial Nomenclature i "'Twas said of Greece two thousand years ago,", John Dunmore Lang , 1824 single work poetry satire
— Appears in: The Colonist , 29 October vol. 1 no. 44 1835; (p. 345) Poems : Sacred and Secular : Written Chiefly at Sea, within the Last Half-Century 1873; (p. 153-156) Freedom on the Wallaby : Poems of the Australian People 1953; (p. 26-27) Bards in the Wilderness : Australian Colonial Poetry to 1920 1970; (p. 29) The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse 1986; (p. 14-15) The Poet's Discovery : Nineteenth Century Australia in Verse 1990; (p. 99) A satire on Governor Macquarie's propensity to name buildings and geographical landmarks after himself.
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