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Dedication : 'To H. D. Stenhouse, Esq., these poems are respectfully inscribed by one, who, though personally unacquainted with him, has learned to appreciate his character and talents'.
Parts of The Bushrangers were printed under the title 'The Tragedy of Donohoe' in the Sydney Monitor (February 1835). It was the first play written by an Australian-born author to be printed in Australia.
Contents
* Contents derived from the Sydney,New South Wales,:W. R. Piddington,1853 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
A group of white men wander into the Australian wilderness in search of discovery. They marvel at the foreignness of the landscape before settling down to sleep at their camp. They are woken by an attack from a group of Indigenous Australians. Seeing his friends killed, Egremont flees into a creek and finds a cavity in the earth to hide in. His pursuers give up their hunt, unable to find him, and he escapes.
* Contents derived from the Sydney,New South Wales,:University of Sydney Library, Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service,2002 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
yThat Shining Band : A Study of Australian Colonial Verse TraditionMichael Ackland,
St Lucia:University of Queensland Press,1994Z4632971994single work criticism Rejecting the apparently common perception that Australia's national identity was first expressed in verse by the balladists of the 1890s, Ackland explores the thematic developments of early colonial poets, both men and women, whose place in Australia's literary history he believes to have been largely undervalued.
yThat Shining Band : A Study of Australian Colonial Verse TraditionMichael Ackland,
St Lucia:University of Queensland Press,1994Z4632971994single work criticism Rejecting the apparently common perception that Australia's national identity was first expressed in verse by the balladists of the 1890s, Ackland explores the thematic developments of early colonial poets, both men and women, whose place in Australia's literary history he believes to have been largely undervalued.