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This poem appears in a number of versions from 1851 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).
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1851
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— Appears in: The Empire , 5 September no. 201 1851; (p. 2)This column praises the poetry of Charles Harpur. The column comments on the first of a series of lectures entitled Modern English Poetry delivered by Daniel Denhiey at the Mechanics School of Arts, Sydney, New South Wales, 2, 9, 16 September and 25 November 1851, and Harpur's completion of '... an important work in the shape of a series of poems 'Wild Bee of Australia' ... now ready for publication.'
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Native Literature
1851
single work
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— Appears in: The Empire , 5 September no. 201 1851; (p. 2)This column praises the poetry of Charles Harpur. The column comments on the first of a series of lectures entitled Modern English Poetry delivered by Daniel Denhiey at the Mechanics School of Arts, Sydney, New South Wales, 2, 9, 16 September and 25 November 1851, and Harpur's completion of '... an important work in the shape of a series of poems 'Wild Bee of Australia' ... now ready for publication.'