y separately published work icon The Illawarra Mercury newspaper issue  
Issue Details: First known date: 1860... vol. 5 no. 64 10 April 1860 of The Illawarra Mercury est. 1855 The Illawarra Mercury
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Stop Thief!, Willie Wallaby , single work criticism
The critique concludes: 'Let [the poet] in future resist the temptation to imitate Byron and the other giants of their art, and by always exercising due care not "to o'erstep the modesty of nature" he may succeed in opening up a "claim" in the "Shaolhaven gullies," to which not even the most captious will refuse to admit the genuineness of his right'.
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