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A Windy Subject single work   poetry   satire   "The Devil, astride on a Brickfielder, drew"
Is part of Sonnets Dedicated to Australian Senators Charles Harpur , 1845 sequence poetry
Issue Details: First known date: 1845... 1845 A Windy Subject
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'On Windeyer.' (Webby)

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  • Number two in the sequence 'Sonnets Dedicated to Australian Senators'.

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First line of verse: "The Devil astride on a 'brickfielder', drew"
Notes:
Epigraph: Would not one think now, simply to hear this fellow blow his own trumpet, that there was some honesty in him? But I know him of old; he is like an adder-sucked egg - nothing but shell.
  • 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. 600
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