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Issue Details: First known date: 1903... 1903 Australia : An Epic
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Notes

  • Author's note: 'Patriotism and loyalty are agreed that the noblest task a poet can engage in is the immortalisation in verse of his country's history... I can only hope that, in thus making Australia the first country which has ever possessed a complete poem-history, I have presented to her and to her literature a gift worthy of acceptance.'
  • Includes a note explaining why the author believes that 'our Aboriginals are descendants of Egyptian navigators who came to this vast island in some such way as I have imagined in Book I.'

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    • Adelaide, South Australia,: Webb , 1903 .
      Extent: 31p.
      Description: illus., port.
      Written as: Will Xavier Redman
      Note/s:
      • Poem consists of an Invocation to the Muse, and four Books of verse.
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