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A classic earlier 19th century representation of Australia as a land 'full of all contrarieties'.
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This poem, attributed to X. Y. Z. in other sources, is ascribed to P. Duncan of New College, Oxford [United Kingdom] by Charles Macfaull editor of the Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal, when published in the Perth Gazette, 14 November, 1840.
P. Duncan may be the 'P. Duncan, once Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum' who wrote a poem 'Arum Maculatum', referred to in R. T. Gunther's, Oxford Gardens, Based upon Daubeny's Popular Guide to the Physick Garden of Oxford (1912).
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Works about this Work
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An Unknown Poem by Barron Field?
1953
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 14 no. 1 1953; (p. 62-65)
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An Unknown Poem by Barron Field?
1953
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 14 no. 1 1953; (p. 62-65)
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