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The Murder of the Lamb: A Legend of the Sheep Fold single work   poetry   "O'er the hunch of a mountain piled to the sky,"
  • Author:agent Charles Harpur http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/harpur-charles
Issue Details: First known date: 1860... 1860 The Murder of the Lamb: A Legend of the Sheep Fold
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Home Companion and Band of Hope Journal vol. 5 7 April 1860 11140954 1860 newspaper issue 1860 pg. 148-149
    Note: Part I only; next section in 5 May 1860 issue
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Home Companion and Band of Hope Journal vol. 5 5 May 1860 11140982 1860 newspaper issue 1860 pg. 200-201
    Note: Part II only; next part in 2 June issue
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Home Companion and Band of Hope Journal vol. 5 2 June 1860 11990830 1860 newspaper issue 1860 pg. 245
    Note:

    Note: Part III only; previous parts in 7 April and 5 May 1860 editions.

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Poetical Works of Charles Harpur Charles Harpur , Elizabeth Perkins (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1984 Z459555 1984 selected work poetry satire 'This collection represents one version of almost every poem written by Charles Harpur, with the omission of some translations and paraphrases. The verse drama, "Stalwart the Bushranger", and the fragments of the dramatic poem "King Saul" are not included. ... The collection is edited from Harpur's manuscript poems held in the Mitchell Library, Sydney, and from printed copies in colonial newspapers when no manuscript version existed.' (Preface) Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1984 pg. 204-216

Works about this Work

Innocence at Risk : Charles Harpur's Adaptation of a Romantic Archetype to the Australian Landscape Michael Ackland , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: Aumla , November no. 70 1988; (p. 239-259)
Demonstrates how Harpur's poetry "reveals many instances of the familiar Romantic motif of innocence betrayed or at risk, adapted to meet the demands and conditions of the new colony." Ackland maintains that these "inherited ideas", this "vision of existence as a struggle between death-affiliated forces and God's benevolent influence is related to the poet's proccupation with how man would shape the largely untouched landscape of terra australis."
Innocence at Risk : Charles Harpur's Adaptation of a Romantic Archetype to the Australian Landscape Michael Ackland , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: Aumla , November no. 70 1988; (p. 239-259)
Demonstrates how Harpur's poetry "reveals many instances of the familiar Romantic motif of innocence betrayed or at risk, adapted to meet the demands and conditions of the new colony." Ackland maintains that these "inherited ideas", this "vision of existence as a struggle between death-affiliated forces and God's benevolent influence is related to the poet's proccupation with how man would shape the largely untouched landscape of terra australis."
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