Farmer, teacher and local government clerk, Hunter River, singleton district

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.

 

We are grateful for access to AustLit in the preparation of these poems.

Primary Works
Poems
Poems
The Bushrangers, A Play in Five Acts and Other Poems
The Poetical Works of Charles Harpur
Thoughts: A Series of Sonnets
Secondary Works
Charles Harpur
Charles Harpur, an Australian
Harpur, Charles (1813-1868)
The Colonial Poets