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Editor's note: Mr F.A. Packer ... obliges us with two original hunting songs by Mr Graves, which we now publish for the first time. Concerning the first he says:- 'This one is not exactly his own - it was inspired by some lines written by Miss Kearney, which he thought a good subject badly handled! So he essayed to improve upon it. I set both and he was very pleased with them; but, unfortunately, another (one of the best) that I did for him he took away to revise, and I never saw it again.'
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Author's note: I have altered as little as possible, correcting rhythm and rhyme, and expelling unpoetical expressions; but reading over more, and better could be done. I wonder any fool had it printed. - J.W.G. In doing you this, don't get me in a barney, / Of all things on earth, with the pretty Miss Kearney.
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The Weeping Kangaroo
2020
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criticism
— Appears in: The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature 2020; (p. 34-43)'Kangaroo hunting was an important activity in colonial Australian life; it provided much-needed sustenance to early settlers; it provided employment, especially when land was being cleared for pasture; and it developed as a popular sport, enabling wealthier settlers to develop and consolidate influential social networks. It also soon became an available genre of writing, found in poetry, fiction, chronicles of exploration and travel, journalism, and memoirs. This chapter looks at one aspect of this genre, beginning with the first poem on an Australian topic published in Australia in 1805; it goes on to explore the figure of the ‘weeping kangaroo’ as an affective narrative trope in colonial Australian writing.'
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The Weeping Kangaroo
2020
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature 2020; (p. 34-43)'Kangaroo hunting was an important activity in colonial Australian life; it provided much-needed sustenance to early settlers; it provided employment, especially when land was being cleared for pasture; and it developed as a popular sport, enabling wealthier settlers to develop and consolidate influential social networks. It also soon became an available genre of writing, found in poetry, fiction, chronicles of exploration and travel, journalism, and memoirs. This chapter looks at one aspect of this genre, beginning with the first poem on an Australian topic published in Australia in 1805; it goes on to explore the figure of the ‘weeping kangaroo’ as an affective narrative trope in colonial Australian writing.'
Source: Abstract.
