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The Song of Ninian Melville single work   poetry   humour   satire   "Sing the song of noisy Ninny - hang the Muses - spit it out!"
  • Author:agent Henry Kendall http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/kendall-henry
Issue Details: First known date: 1880... 1880 The Song of Ninian Melville
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Notes

  • This poem appeared in the supressed 1880 edition of Songs from the Mountains, but it was subsequently omitted as publisher William Maddock, considered it to be potentially libellous.

    A copy of this poem, possibly written in Kendall's hand, is glued into the copy of Songs from the Mountains, held in the Hayes Collection, at the Fryer Library, at the University of Queensland.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 1880

Works about this Work

Kendall's Satirical Humour Thomas Thornton Reed , 1982 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 42 no. 4 1982; (p. 363-384)
English Society Visitors : Walter Stone : Fact and Fiction in Australian Literary Biography Today Vivien H. Chantler , 1961 single work criticism
— Appears in: Makar , July no. 8 1961; (p. 28)
Gordon, Kendall and Farrell : Some Literary Curiosities George Mackaness , 1950 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 11 no. 1 1950; (p. 48-52)
Gordon, Kendall and Farrell : Some Literary Curiosities George Mackaness , 1950 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 11 no. 1 1950; (p. 48-52)
English Society Visitors : Walter Stone : Fact and Fiction in Australian Literary Biography Today Vivien H. Chantler , 1961 single work criticism
— Appears in: Makar , July no. 8 1961; (p. 28)
Kendall's Satirical Humour Thomas Thornton Reed , 1982 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 42 no. 4 1982; (p. 363-384)
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