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y Cook, Meditating on Australia's Future single work poetry "The stillness and the hush of evening lay"

Alternative title: Captain Cook Meditating on Australia's Future; University Prize Poem : gold medal : 'Captain Cook meditating on Australia's future'

Author:agent W. H. H. Yarrington

Issue Details: First known date: 1859... 1859 Cook, Meditating on Australia's Future

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Yarrington was awarded the W. C. Wentworth Prize for Poetry for this poem, which he read at the opening of the Great Hall at the University of Sydney, on 18 July, 1859. It also became known as 'The University Prize Poem'.

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y The Sydney Morning Herald vol. 40 no. 6587 19 July 1859 Z1483442 1859 newspaper issue 1859
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y The Moreton Bay Courier 30 July 1859 Z1672691 1859 newspaper issue 1859
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y The Empire 19 July 1859 Z1739324 1859 newspaper issue 1859
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y The Empire 13 August 1859 Z1743300 1859 newspaper issue 1859
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y The Illawarra Mercury vol. 4 no. 83 21 July 1859 Z1782024 1859 newspaper issue 1859
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Publisher: W. H. H. Yarrington

Sydney, New South Wales,: W. H. H. Yarrington , 1872 .

Extent: 11p.

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'Published by request for [the] bazaar in aid of St. Barnabas' Church, Balranald, 1872.'
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y The Sydney Morning Herald 25 February 1879 Z1483444 1879 newspaper issue 1879
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y University Prize Poem : And Other Verses W. H. H. Yarrington , West Maitland : T. Dimmock , 1880 Z1483423 1880 selected work poetry West Maitland : T. Dimmock , 1880
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y Captain Cook Meditating on Australia's Future W. H. H. Yarrington , Sydney : Turner and Henderson , 1907 Z1482955 1907 selected work poetry Sydney : Turner and Henderson , 1907
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pg. 3-6

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