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Charles Harpur, a major nineteenth-century Australian poet, made a living as a sheep farmer and civil servant in New South Wales. Elizabeth Perkins first published a good edition of his poems in 1984. His manuscripts can be seen at the Mitchell Library in Sydney.

• Henry Kendall papers: State Library of New South Wales, and National Library of Australia.
• Kendall, Thomas Henry. Leaves from Australian Forests. Melbourne: George Robertson, 1869.
• --. Poems and Songs. Sydney: J. R. Clarke, 1862. Internet Archive.
• --. Songs from the Mountains. Sydney: William Maddock, 1880. Google book.

• Gay, William. Sonnets and Other Verses. Melbourne: E. A. Petherick, 1894. Internet Archive
• --. Sonnets. Bendigo, 1896.
• --. Christ on Olympus and Other Poems. Bendigo: W. Gay, 1896.
• --. The Complete Poetical Works of William Gay. 1911. Internet Archive. SETIS.

James A. Bland, perhaps the greatest African-American folksong writer, was born in 1854 in Flushing, New York. His father, who received a law degree from Howard University, was the first African American appointed examiner to the United States Patent Office.

• Harding, Walter. "Henry David Thoreau." American National Biography Online. American Council of Learned Societies: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Adelaide Crapsey taught at Kemper Hall (1902-04), Miss Lowe's Preparatory School, Stamford, Conn. (1906-08), and Smith College (1911-12). She invented the quintain and died much too young for one with such astonishing skill as a poet.

• MacCarthy, Fiona. "Morris, William (1834–1896)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Oct. 2009.