y separately published work icon Pen and Pencil in Collins Street single work   poetry   humour   "Pearl of the city - Collins Street!"
Issue Details: First known date: 1891... 1891 Pen and Pencil in Collins Street
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'... a humourous twelve-part epic in rhyming couplets about the hustle and bustle of Melbourne's stately thoroughfare, with rough sketches of familiar architectural high-spots affording visual relief'. - Alan Corkhill Antipodean Encounters : Australia and the German Literary Imagination (1990) : 214.

Notes

  • Epigraph: Some toying thoughts, to please awhile; / Some ancient jests, to raise a smile; / Enough, alas! of common-place, / With here and there a glimpse of grace; / Ephemera of the place and times - / Such, young Victoria, are these rhymes. / Take them, as flowers, wayside grown / In paths which thou hast made thine own.

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  • Melbourne, Victoria,
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