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Author's note: 'Composed after reading in the Sydney Morning Herald, of the 7th instant, the fatal termination of Mr. Kennedy's Expedition.'
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Poems on the Death of Mr. Kennedy : [Published in S. M. Herald]
1849
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criticism
— Appears in: The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator , 24 March 1849; (p. 9) Review critical of two poems which appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, following publication of reports on the fate of Kennedy's expedition. After discussing the poems, the reviewer concluded : 'A greater insult to the memory of poor Kennedy, his gallant band, and the public was never perpetrated; nor can it fail to excite a mingled feeling of regret, surprise and indignation that the leading journal of the colony should have lent its aid to publish such contemptible effusions; such despicable doggrel [sic], upon so solemn and lamentable an event.'
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Poems on the Death of Mr. Kennedy : [Published in S. M. Herald]
1849
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator , 24 March 1849; (p. 9) Review critical of two poems which appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, following publication of reports on the fate of Kennedy's expedition. After discussing the poems, the reviewer concluded : 'A greater insult to the memory of poor Kennedy, his gallant band, and the public was never perpetrated; nor can it fail to excite a mingled feeling of regret, surprise and indignation that the leading journal of the colony should have lent its aid to publish such contemptible effusions; such despicable doggrel [sic], upon so solemn and lamentable an event.'
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