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A War Song for the Nineteenth Century single work   poetry   "The march of Knowledge hasten,"
  • Author:agent Charles Harpur http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/harpur-charles
Composed: Singleton, Singleton area, Hunter Valley, Newcastle - Hunter Valley area, New South Wales,
First known date: 1842 Issue Details: First known date: 1842... 1842 A War Song for the Nineteenth Century
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'A sincere if naive hymn on the march of intellect.' (Webby)

Notes

  • This poem appears in a number of versions from 1843 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

Alternative title: A War Song for the 19th Century
First line of verse: "The march of Knowledge hasten!"
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24 lines
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Author's note: (Republished with a Note and additional Stanza.)
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Comprises 32 lines.
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Charles Harpur's extensive and wide ranging 'Note' , including the additional stanza and discussion on the stanza's meaning, Harpur's definition of republicanism, and John Dunmore Lang's Australian League, is separately indexed. The Poetical Works of Charles Harpur (1984) published the complete poem without the 'Note'.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator 7 January 1854 Z647580 1854 newspaper issue 1854 pg. 5
  • 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. 781-782
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Works about this Work

Charles Harpur (1813-1868) : Baptised into Independence Charles Harpur , 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.
Rhetoric and the Man : Charles Harpur and the Call to Armed Rebellion Elizabeth Perkins , 1986 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Age Monthly Review , September vol. 6 no. 5 1986; (p. 14-17)
Note C. H. (1813-1868) , 1853 single work criticism
— Appears in: The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator , 7 January 1854; (p. 5)

Charles Harpur's wide ranging note on the addition of a stanza to his poem A War Song for the Nineteenth Century discusses the meaning of republicanism and John Dunmore Lang's Australian League founded in 1850 'to encourage a sense of national identity, to resist any further convict transportation and to promote, by moral means exclusively, the entire freedom of the Australian colonies and their incorporation into one political federation.' (Baker, D. W. A., 'Lang, John Dunmore (1799-1878)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lang-john-dunmore-2326/text2953, accessed 7 November 2012.)
Note C. H. (1813-1868) , 1853 single work criticism
— Appears in: The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator , 7 January 1854; (p. 5)

Charles Harpur's wide ranging note on the addition of a stanza to his poem A War Song for the Nineteenth Century discusses the meaning of republicanism and John Dunmore Lang's Australian League founded in 1850 'to encourage a sense of national identity, to resist any further convict transportation and to promote, by moral means exclusively, the entire freedom of the Australian colonies and their incorporation into one political federation.' (Baker, D. W. A., 'Lang, John Dunmore (1799-1878)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lang-john-dunmore-2326/text2953, accessed 7 November 2012.)
Charles Harpur (1813-1868) : Baptised into Independence Charles Harpur , 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.
Rhetoric and the Man : Charles Harpur and the Call to Armed Rebellion Elizabeth Perkins , 1986 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Age Monthly Review , September vol. 6 no. 5 1986; (p. 14-17)
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