Issue Details: First known date: 1969... 1969 Notes on the Publication of Dorothea MacKellar's Poem "My Country"
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'Australia's most popular poem may be Dorothea Mackellar's 'My Country'. This lyrical expression of national consciousness was first printed in the London Spectator of 5 September 1908. Since then it has been published in two books of Dorothea Mackellar's verse; it has appeared, in one form or another, in most anthologies of Australian verse; in school primers; and it has received popular accolade on countless concert platforms, from the disciplined lips of numberless singing and reciting children, from the waving hands of a host of elocutioneers, and from the mouth of a lately popular American president.'

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  • My Country Dorothea Mackellar , 1908 single work poetry
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