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Fainting by the Way single work   poetry   "Swarthy wastelands, wide and woodless, glittering, miles and miles away,"
  • Author:agent Henry Kendall http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/kendall-henry
Issue Details: First known date: 1861... 1861 Fainting by the Way
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Notes

  • Dedication: Appears in Poems and Songs (1862) with Kendall's dedication: 'Inscribed to my friend, J. Sheridan Moore, Esq.'

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Sydney Morning Herald 1 August 1861 Z1759505 1861 newspaper issue 1861 pg. 3
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Home Companion and Band of Hope Journal 24 August 1861 Z1763878 1861 newspaper issue 1861 pg. 353-354
    Note: Carries the note - The version now given has been specially corrected for the "Australian Home Companion".
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle 5 October 1861 Z1766030 1861 newspaper issue 1861 pg. 4
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Illawarra Mercury vol. 7 no. 1 1 October 1861 Z1786613 1861 newspaper issue 1861 pg. 4
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Poems and Songs Henry Kendall , Sydney London : J. R. Clarke Sampson Low, Son and Marston , 1862 Z822006 1862 selected work poetry Sydney London : J. R. Clarke Sampson Low, Son and Marston , 1862 pg. 20-25
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Athenaeum 27 September 1862 Z1759495 1862 periodical issue 1862 pg. 395
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Poets and Prose Writers of New South Wales G. B. Barton , Sydney : Gibbs, Shallard and Co. , 1866 Z200356 1866 single work criticism Sydney : Gibbs, Shallard and Co. , 1866 pg. 202-203
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Poems of Henry Kendall Henry Kendall , Melbourne : George Robertson , 1886 Z572550 1886 selected work poetry Melbourne : George Robertson , 1886 pg. 12-13
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Town and Country Journal vol. 55 no. 1452 4 December 1897 Z607421 1897 newspaper issue 1897 pg. 29
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Argus 27 November 1897 Z1845000 1897 newspaper issue 1897 pg. 13
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Western Mail 8 April 1898 Z1592219 1898 newspaper issue 1898 pg. 44
    Note: Editor's note: Mr. J. W. Agnew, of Hobart, forwarded to the Melbourne Argus the following poem by Kendall, which does not appear in his published works:-
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Bulletin vol. 20 no. 1026 14 October 1899 Z630680 1899 periodical issue 1899 pg. 2 Section: The Red Page
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Poetical Works of Henry Kendall Henry Kendall , Thomas Thornton Reed (editor), Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia , 1966 Z571473 1966 selected work poetry This critical edition includes 90 previously uncollected poems and collates manuscripts of the poems and their appearances in periodicals and newspapers during the poet's life-time. There are copious biographical and critical notes, indexes and a bibliography. Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia , 1966 pg. 12-13

Works about this Work

Circulation Tanya Agathocleous , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Victorian Literature and Culture , Fall/Winter vol. 46 no. 3/4 2018; (p. 621-625)

'This was supposed to be an entry on the “Global” but there was too much to say—which both begs the question of the usefulness of the term and speaks to the degree to which we've left the nation behind as a literary paradigm. “Global” is vexing because it encompasses a wide range of more specific paradigms (such as imperial, international, transnational, global South, Oceanic Studies, postcolonial, geopolitical) and thus flattens out and depoliticizes the uneven terrain across which literature travels. Antoinette Burton has argued, for instance, that the term often masks the imperialism or neoimperialism that is the context for the creation and circulation of literature designated global. (Introduction)

Henry Kendall: A Study in Imagery Donovan Clarke , 1957 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Quarterly , vol. 29 no. 4 1957; (p. 71-79) Australian Quarterly , vol. 30 no. 1 1958; (p. 89-98) Henry Kendall : The Muse of Australia 1992; (p. 1-24)
Clarke investigates Kendall's 'private myth' in Poems and Songs in which the poet seeks a maiden who has crossed a sea and entered a strange land. In later volumes, Kendall's expansion of this myth anticipates the symbolists because of his exploration of the "conception that human existence is an absence from the Divine, and Time a deprivation of Eternity". Clarke concludes that Kendall needs to be considered in terms other than "Australian" to appreciate the full impact of his poetry, his borrowings and anticipations.
Uncollected Poems of Henry Kendall J. W. Agnew , 1897 single work biography
— Appears in: The Australian Town and Country Journal , 4 December vol. 55 no. 1452 1897; (p. 29)
Verses : By Henry Kendall 1862 single work column
— Appears in: The Athenaeum , 27 September 1862; (p. 394-395)
Verses : By Henry Kendall 1862 single work column
— Appears in: The Athenaeum , 27 September 1862; (p. 394-395)
Henry Kendall: A Study in Imagery Donovan Clarke , 1957 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Quarterly , vol. 29 no. 4 1957; (p. 71-79) Australian Quarterly , vol. 30 no. 1 1958; (p. 89-98) Henry Kendall : The Muse of Australia 1992; (p. 1-24)
Clarke investigates Kendall's 'private myth' in Poems and Songs in which the poet seeks a maiden who has crossed a sea and entered a strange land. In later volumes, Kendall's expansion of this myth anticipates the symbolists because of his exploration of the "conception that human existence is an absence from the Divine, and Time a deprivation of Eternity". Clarke concludes that Kendall needs to be considered in terms other than "Australian" to appreciate the full impact of his poetry, his borrowings and anticipations.
Uncollected Poems of Henry Kendall J. W. Agnew , 1897 single work biography
— Appears in: The Australian Town and Country Journal , 4 December vol. 55 no. 1452 1897; (p. 29)
Circulation Tanya Agathocleous , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Victorian Literature and Culture , Fall/Winter vol. 46 no. 3/4 2018; (p. 621-625)

'This was supposed to be an entry on the “Global” but there was too much to say—which both begs the question of the usefulness of the term and speaks to the degree to which we've left the nation behind as a literary paradigm. “Global” is vexing because it encompasses a wide range of more specific paradigms (such as imperial, international, transnational, global South, Oceanic Studies, postcolonial, geopolitical) and thus flattens out and depoliticizes the uneven terrain across which literature travels. Antoinette Burton has argued, for instance, that the term often masks the imperialism or neoimperialism that is the context for the creation and circulation of literature designated global. (Introduction)

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