Australian

Biography

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.

 

Biography
  • Adam Lindsay Gordon letters: State Library of New South Wales, copies at Royal Historical Society of Victoria.
  • Gordon, Adam Lindsay. Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes. 1870.
  • --Poems. Ed. Robert A. Thompson. London and Melbourne: A. H. Massina, 1920.
  • --Sea Spray and Smoke Drift. Melbourne: Fergusson and Moore, 1867. Google Books.
Biography
  • 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.
Biography
  • Barcroft Capel Boake notes and Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake letters (State Library of New South Wales); Boake manuscript (National Library of Australia).
  • Boake, Barcroft Henry Thomas. Where the Dead Men Lie and Other Poems. Ed. A.G. Stephens. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1897.
Biography
  • 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.
Biography

Christopher John Brennan was born in Sydney, Australia in 1870 of Irish parents. Brennan first studied for the priesthood, but abandoned his vocation at St. Ignatius College for the University of Sydney. There Brennan concentrated on classics and philosophy, graduating from the University with first class honours in 1891.

Biography
  • "Dion Titheradge." Internet Movie Database.
Biography
  • Hope, A. D. The Wandering Islands. Sydney: Edwards and Shaw, 1956. PR 6015.O55 W36 1956 Robarts Library
  • --.Poems. London: Hamilton, 1960. PR 6015.O55 A17 1960 Robarts Library
  • --. Selected Poems. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1963. PR 6015.O55 A17 1963 Robarts Library
Biography
  • Cambridge, Ada. Hymns on the Litany. Oxford: J.H. and J. Parker, 1865.
  • --. Hymns on the Holy Communion. London: Houlston and Wright, 1866.
  • --. The Manor House and Other Poems. London: Daldy, Isbister, 1875.
  • --. Unspoken Thoughts. London: Kegan Paul, 1887.
Biography
  • Hadgraft, Cecil. "Stephens, James Brunton (1835–1902)." Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.