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Issue Details: First known date: 1903... 1903 Dawnward?
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Notes

  • Epigraph: 'Without edifice or rules or any argument/ The institutions of the dear love of comrades.'
  • Dedication: 'To Young Democracy'

Contents

* Contents derived from the Melbourne, Victoria,:Lothian , 1909 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Australiai"Last sea-thing dredged by sailor Time from Space,", Bernard O'Dowd , single work poetry (p. 9)
Dawnward? : Untitledi"That reddish veil which o'er the face", Danton , single work poetry (p. 11-14)
Dawnward? : The Campfires of the Losti"Who will may see, on plains around,", Danton , single work poetry (p. 15 - 17)
Prosperity Dawnward? : Prosperityi"Enlaced with gardened jewellery", Bernard O'Dowd , single work poetry (p. 18-19)
Dawnward? : Hatei"I scour the present and the past", Bernard O'Dowd , single work poetry (p. 20 - 21)
Dawnward? : Cupidi"To get recruits for Pain, I use", Bernard O'Dowd , single work poetry (p. 22 - 23)
Dawnward? : Proletariai"The sunny rounds of Earth contain", Danton , single work poetry (p. 24 - 27)
Dawnward? : A Poet of the Momenti"Criterion of better, worse", Bernard O'Dowd , single work poetry (p. 28-31)
Dawnward? : The Cityi"The City crowds our motley broods,", Danton , single work poetry (p. 32 - 35)
Dawnward? : The Pressi"I syllable the thoughts of those", Danton , single work poetry (p. 36 - 38)
Note: Has two extra verses at the beginning
Dawnward? : Young Democracyi"Hark! Young Democracy from sleep", Danton , single work poetry (p. 39 - 42)
Dawnward? : A Keynotei"Evading Loves that beckon me", Bernard O'Dowd , single work poetry (p. 43 - 47)
Song of the Old Sun-Diali"I sing no nitric lays of truth,", Danton , single work poetry (p. 48 - 49)
Compromisei"I pencil glaring wings of Right", Danton , single work poetry (p. 50)
God in Historyi"When Egypt's secret science solved", Bernard O'Dowd , single work poetry (p. 51 - 53)
The Seed Timei"Although our satraps can o'erflow", Bernard O'Dowd , single work poetry (p. 54 - 55)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Politics and Poetics: Bernard O'Dowd's "Dawnward?" and Nineteenth-Century Chartist Poetry John Docker , 1993 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Southerly , June vol. 53 no. 2 1993; (p. 13-33)
y separately published work icon The Poet Militant : Bernard O'Dowd Hugh Anderson , New York (City) : Twayne , 1968 Z1555778 1968 single work biography criticism
The Uncollected Poems of Bernard O'Dowd : (With Special Reference to the "Fugutive" Poems) S. E. Lee , 1953 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 14 no. 2 1953; (p. 110-124)
Bernard O'Dowd's Early Writing E. Morris Miller , 1949 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 8 no. 4 1949; (p. 233-239)
Young Democracy : The Early Verse of Bernard O'Dowd Brian Elliott , 1947 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Singing to the Cattle and Other Australian Essays 1947; (p. 155-174)
Bernard O'Dowd 1931 single work essay
— Appears in: The Brisbane Courier , 12 September 1931; (p. 12)
Bernard O'Dowd's Early Writing E. Morris Miller , 1949 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 8 no. 4 1949; (p. 233-239)
The Uncollected Poems of Bernard O'Dowd : (With Special Reference to the "Fugutive" Poems) S. E. Lee , 1953 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 14 no. 2 1953; (p. 110-124)
Young Democracy : The Early Verse of Bernard O'Dowd Brian Elliott , 1947 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Singing to the Cattle and Other Australian Essays 1947; (p. 155-174)
y separately published work icon The Poet Militant : Bernard O'Dowd Hugh Anderson , New York (City) : Twayne , 1968 Z1555778 1968 single work biography criticism
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