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To the River Yarra single work   poetry   "Child of the hills - the forest child!"
Issue Details: First known date: 1845... 1845 To the River Yarra
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Notes

  • Note that Hewitt wrote two quite different poems titled 'To the River Yarra'. This 'version' was first published in Impressions of Australia Felix (1845), whilst the earlier 'version' first appeared in the Port Phillip Patriot.

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Impressions of Australia Felix Australia : Historical, Descriptive and Statistic : With an Account of a Four Years' Residence in That Colony, Notes of a Voyage Round the World, Australian Poems etc. Richard Howitt , London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans , 1845 Z1041104 1845 selected work poetry autobiography travel London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans , 1845 pg. 174-177
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator 14 April 1849 Z1603221 1849 newspaper issue 1849 pg. 6
    Note: 'Selections from Australian Poets', no.11.
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To the River Yarra i "O, Yarra! many are the streams", Richard Howitt , 1842 single work poetry
— Appears in: Port Phillip Patriot and Melbourne Advertiser , 7 July 1842; The Poet's Discovery : Nineteenth Century Australia in Verse 1990; (p. 278-280)
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Subjects:
  • Yarra River, Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria,
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