A Passage from 'Genius Lost' extract   poetry   "This then was the world"
  • Author:agent Charles Harpur http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/harpur-charles
Issue Details: First known date: 1862... 1862 A Passage from 'Genius Lost'
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Notes

  • This extract of 103 lines from Charles Harpur's sequence Genius Lost includes a version of 'The Sorrows Part Five: Life's First and Second Birth into the World' and lines from 'The Sorrows Part Eight: Whither?'.

    For further details, see The Poems of Charles Harpur in Manuscript in the Mitchell Library and in Publication in the Nineteenth Century: An Analytical Finding List by Elizabeth Holt and Elizabeth Perkins (Canberra: Australian Scholarly Editions Centre, 2002).

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    y separately published work icon The Empire 2 June 1862 Z1790643 1862 newspaper issue 1862 pg. 5
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