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Jim the Splitter single work poetry satire humour "The bard who would sing about Wollombi Jim"

Author:agent Henry Kendall http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/kendall-henry

Issue Details: First known date: 1880... 1880 Jim the Splitter

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Appeared in Songs from the Mountains with several minor alterations to the original Freeman's Journal version. The alterations included the first line, which was changed to 'The bard who is singing of Wollombi Jim'.
'In the event of your accepting the accompanying satire will you kindly glance at the proofs yourself. Jim the Splitter is my latest effort in the metrical line. I have headed it with my real name, because I like it. Its chief merit lies in its truth. No doubt it is rough on the " 'orny 'anded" but your bushman is one of the most finished rogues out. I ought to know having had such an unhappy business connection with him. The "Heathen Chinee" is a child to the beggar. My poem will "take" with a large class of sufferers' - Kendall, letter to Thomas Butler (editor of the Freeman's Journal), dated 23 January, 1880. Source: Reed (1966).

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y Songs from the Mountains Henry Kendall , Sydney London : William Maddock Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington , 1880 Z241194 1880 selected work poetry Sydney London : William Maddock Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington , 1880
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1880
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pg. 38-43
Note: With first line: 'The bard who is singing of Wollombi Jim'
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y The Freeman's Journal vol. 31 no. 1877 21 February 1880 Z1781290 1880 newspaper issue 1880
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1880
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pg. 14
Note: With first line: 'The bard who would sing about Wollombi Jim'
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y The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser vol. 34 no. 1153 12 August 1882 Z1249567 1882 newspaper issue 1882
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1882
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pg. 245
Note: Appeared in the Sydney Mail in W. B. Dalley's lengthy obituary article on Kendall.
Appears in:

y Selected Poems of Henry Kendall Henry Kendall , T. Inglis Moore (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1957 Z407547 1957 selected work poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1957
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1957
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pg. 135-137
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y From the Ballads to Brennan T. Inglis Moore (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1964 Z407973 1964 anthology poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1964
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1964
)
pg. 80-81
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y The Poetical Works of Henry Kendall Henry Kendall , Thomas Thornton Reed (editor), Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia , 1966 Z571473 1966 selected work poetry Abstract 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
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1966
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pg. 157-159
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y My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years Leonie Kramer (editor), Sydney : Lansdowne , 1985 Z219820 1985 anthology poetry short story Sydney : Lansdowne , 1985
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1985
)
pg. 116-118
Appears in:

y Selected Poems of Henry Kendall Henry Kendall , T. Inglis Moore (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1957 Z407547 1957 selected work poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1988
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1988
)
pg. 135-137
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y Henry Kendall : Poetry, Prose and Selected Correspondence Henry Kendall , Michael Ackland (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1993 Z85494 1993 selected work prose poetry correspondence St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1993
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1993
)
pg. 108-110

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