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Defining 'ethnographic verse' as 'a loose, heterogeneous sug-genre that mixed poetry with anthropology, or ethnology as Victorians called it' O'Leary considers examples within the context of similar works from the Unites States and New Zealand, arguing that these poetic epics have literary and historical significance.
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'The Life, the Loves, of that Dark Race' : The Ethnographic Verse of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Australia
Australian Literary Studies
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Subjects:
- Moyarra : An Australian Legend in Two Cantos 1851 single work poetry
- The Story of Balladeadro 1867 single work poetry
- Mamba (the Bright Eyed) : An Aboriginal Reminiscence 1867 single work poetry
- 1800-1899
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