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1849
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poetry
Composed:
Singleton area,
Hunter Valley,
Newcastle - Hunter Valley area,
New South Wales,
Issue Details:
First known date:
1842...
1842
The Vision of the Rock
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'On the future freedom and prosperity of Australia.' (Webby)
Notes
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This poem appears in a number of versions from 1842 onwards. For further details, see The Poems of Charles Harpur in Manuscript in the Mitchell Library and in Publication in the Nineteenth Century: An Analytical Finding List by Elizabeth Holt and Elizabeth Perkins (Canberra: Australian Scholarly Editions Centre, 2002).
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Charles Harpur (1813-1868) : Baptised into Independence
1998
selected work
prose
— Appears in: Our First Republicans : John Dunmore Lang, Charles Harpur, Daniel Henry Deniehy : Selected Writings, 1840-1860 1998; (p. 57-111) Contains a selection of Harpur's prose pieces, many of which originated as notes attached to poems published in newspapers and journals. -
Charles Harpur's Disfiguring Origins : Allegory in Colonial Poetry
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 14 no. 3 1990; (p. 279-296) Imagining Romanticism : Essays on English and Australian Romanticisms 1992; (p. 217-240) Mead examines the poetry of Charles Harpur in terms of the poet's attempt to move from colonial to national modes of expression. Mead proceeds by exploring the allegorical nature of some poems as signs of Harpur's attempt to exhibit the original Australian voice to which he aspired. But, allegoresis, Mead suggests, opposes the poet's romanticising of origins because of the gap between the signs of expression and the experience of the poet. What is found when one seeks "origins" in Harpur's poetry is not a "unitary or easily traceable historical origin" but the "divisions and anxieties" of Harpur's allegory.
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Charles Harpur (1813-1868) : Baptised into Independence
1998
selected work
prose
— Appears in: Our First Republicans : John Dunmore Lang, Charles Harpur, Daniel Henry Deniehy : Selected Writings, 1840-1860 1998; (p. 57-111) Contains a selection of Harpur's prose pieces, many of which originated as notes attached to poems published in newspapers and journals. -
Charles Harpur's Disfiguring Origins : Allegory in Colonial Poetry
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 14 no. 3 1990; (p. 279-296) Imagining Romanticism : Essays on English and Australian Romanticisms 1992; (p. 217-240) Mead examines the poetry of Charles Harpur in terms of the poet's attempt to move from colonial to national modes of expression. Mead proceeds by exploring the allegorical nature of some poems as signs of Harpur's attempt to exhibit the original Australian voice to which he aspired. But, allegoresis, Mead suggests, opposes the poet's romanticising of origins because of the gap between the signs of expression and the experience of the poet. What is found when one seeks "origins" in Harpur's poetry is not a "unitary or easily traceable historical origin" but the "divisions and anxieties" of Harpur's allegory.
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