Genuine Botany Bay Eclogues sequence   poetry  
Alternative title: Botany Bay Eclogues
Issue Details: First known date: 1832... 1832 Genuine Botany Bay Eclogues
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Notes

  • Author's note: At head of the first poem: Few of your readers, I suppose, are aware that Dr. Southey, (q. v.) the Poet Laureate of England, published a series of poems, a great many years ago, under the title of 'Botany Bay Eclogues.' One may easily imagine what sort of pieces such poems were likely to be - representations, forsooth, of our lifers and fourteen-years-men sitting on the rocks that overhang the blue waters of the Pacific, and mingling their salt tears with the ocean brine, or soliloquising the kangaroos and the gum-trees in the forests of the interior, on the miseries of their exile. The worthy Laureate knew very little of 'Life in New South Wales,' of which, Doctor, I propose to send you a few specimens in a series on 'Genuine Botany Bay Eclogues,' which, however inferior in poetical merit, will, nevertheless, I doubt not, be greatly superior, in truth of colouring, to his transmarine effusions.

Includes

No. I : Australian Courtship i "The Currency Lads may fill their glasses", 'Juvenal' (fl. 1832) , 1832 single work poetry
— Appears in: Colonial Times , 21 August 1832; (p. 3)

— Appears in: Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser , 14 July vol. 30 no. 2154 1832; (p. 4) Australian Kaleidoscope 1968; (p. 25-26) Old Bush Songs and Rhymes of Colonial Times 1976; (p. 20-21) Old Ballads from the Bush 1987; (p. 9-10) The Poet's Discovery : Nineteenth Century Australia in Verse 1990; (p. 39-40) The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse 1991; (p. 18-19)
No. II : The Happy Family i "I will sing you a song of a settler bold,", 'Juvenal' (fl. 1832) , 1832 single work poetry
— Appears in: Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser , 17 July vol. 30 no. 2155 1832; (p. 4) Old Bush Songs and Rhymes of Colonial Times 1976; (p. 21-22)

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Works about this Work

Britain's Australia Ken A. Stewart , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge History of Australian Literature 2009; (p. 7-33)
'This chapter seeks to discuss British (especially English) literature, ideas and literary conventions in a way that underlines their pre-emptive importance for colonial Australian writing, while acknowledging the possibility of their reconstitution or reformation in local and colonial conditions, and also within international, imperial, or global contexts that bear upon the British-colonial connection.' (8)
Britain's Australia Ken A. Stewart , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge History of Australian Literature 2009; (p. 7-33)
'This chapter seeks to discuss British (especially English) literature, ideas and literary conventions in a way that underlines their pre-emptive importance for colonial Australian writing, while acknowledging the possibility of their reconstitution or reformation in local and colonial conditions, and also within international, imperial, or global contexts that bear upon the British-colonial connection.' (8)
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