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Glencoe
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"'The first the day', says bottle-nosed Jock,",
1940-1949
Z388950
1940-1949
single work
poetry
Epic poem in 16 numbered parts.
E. Morris Miller and Frederick T. Macartney's Australian Literature: A Bibliography to 1938: Extended to 1950 (1956) :448 comments:'Glencoe is a sequence of ballads having for its theme the Highland Massacre in 1691. The first and last, by way of prologue and epilogue, introduce, in a tavern some months after the event, Bottle-nosed Jock, whose tipsily vehement condemnation of the atrocity gains force from the revelation of his connection with the Campbell clan primarily responsible for it. In the rest of the poems, which are mostly in dialect, incidents of the massacre are described in a variety of metres in the border-ballad manner, ...'.
Sydney
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Angus and Robertson
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1947
pg.
29-30
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The Bulletin
vol.
68
no.
3490
1 January
1947
Z589631
1947
periodical issue
1947
pg.
32
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Selected Poems
Cremorne
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Angus and Robertson
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1973
Z266357
1973
selected work
poetry
drama
extract
humour
satire
Cremorne
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Angus and Robertson
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1973
pg.
80-81
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