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Authorship has been questioned. An anonymously published poem in the Geoffry Crabthorn literary column of The Register, 'A Voice from the Bush', or 'Under the Trees', was written in the style and manner of thought of Adam Lindsay Gordon. The poem won much acclaim and was believed to be by Gordon. It was included in Marcus Clarke's selection of works of Gordon, but others pointed out that it had been submitted to The Register a year after Gordon's death.
Mowbray Morris (qv), who had been Aide-de-Campe to the Governor at the time of its publication, claimed authorship. See Poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon, ed. Frank Maldon Robb (1912), Appendix IV.
The poem later attracted a response from Banjo Patterson in the form of a sequel, 'A Voice from the Town'.
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A Century of Australian Song states author as 'Anonymous'
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The Henry Lawson Memorial and Literary Society [Meeting Report]
1932
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— Appears in: All About Books , 15 October vol. 4 no. 10 1932; (p. 166) -
Appendix IV : A Voice from the Bush
1912
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— Appears in: The Poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon 1912; (p. 361-368) -
A. L. Gordon's Poems
1880
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 12 October 1880; (p. 7) -
A. L Gordon's Poems
1880
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— Appears in: Express and Telegraph , 29 September 1880; (p. 3) -
A. L. Gordon's Poems
1880
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correspondence
— Appears in: Express and Telegraph , 27 September 1880; (p. 2)
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Appendix IV : A Voice from the Bush
1912
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— Appears in: The Poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon 1912; (p. 361-368) -
The Pessimist in Poetry
1877
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criticism
— Appears in: Looking Back Gaily 1877; (p. 56-61) The Author describes what he claims to be the mistaken attribution of a poem by Mowbray Morris to Adam Lindsay Gordon, highlighting the extreme pessimism in Gordon's writing. -
A. L. Gordon's Poems
1880
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correspondence
— Appears in: Express and Telegraph , 27 September 1880; (p. 2) -
A. L Gordon's Poems
1880
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— Appears in: Express and Telegraph , 29 September 1880; (p. 3) -
A. L. Gordon's Poems
1880
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 12 October 1880; (p. 7)