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Issue Details: First known date: 1840... 1840 Headlong Rhymes
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Notes

  • Epigraph: Multo melius aliud agere quam nihil/ 'Even thou art better than nothing', said the Mountain when it produced a Mouse!
  • 'Published by Constable and Company, Headlong Hall, V. D. L.'
  • 'The Hobart edition has been treated as the first with some doubt, as definite evidence for the date could not be traced.' (Percival Serle, Bibliography of Australasian Poetry and Verse)

Contents

* Contents derived from the Hobart, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania,: 1840 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Michael Howe's Lamenti"Through pathless wilds condemn'd to roam,", W. H. B. , single work poetry (p. 3-6)
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Link: Web Resource Sighted: 04/04/2018
      Hobart, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania,: ca. 1840 .
      Printed by William Gore Elliston
      Extent: 24p.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • Prefatory 'Caution to the Reader' signed P. Ladrone.
      • Ferguson 3063a
      Launceston, Northeast Tasmania, Tasmania,: ca. 1840 .
      Printed by The Examiner Office
      Extent: [ii], 17pp.
    • Woden, Woden Valley area, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory,: Popinjay Publications , 1989 .
      Extent: 24 leavesp.
      Edition info: Facsimile reprint
      Limited edition info: First published in an edition of 20 copies in this series on 30 July 1989
      Note/s:
      • Popinjay Publications' documents & facsimiles series ; no. 32
      • Ferguson record 3063a at end of book.
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Works about this Work

A 'Complicated Joy' : The Aesthetic Theory of Associationism and Its Influence on Tasmania's Culture Robert Dixon , 1987 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Flow of Culture : Tasmanian Studies 1987; (p. 122-141) The article reconstructs 'from verbal and visual evidence the kind of sensibility produced in early Tasmania by the aesthetic theory of associationism.' The author cites examples suggesting that 'associationism was not just another aspect of colonial sensibility, but a fundamental mechanism of psychological transition and accommodation at the very centre of Tasmania's immigrant culture.'(p.138)
A 'Complicated Joy' : The Aesthetic Theory of Associationism and Its Influence on Tasmania's Culture Robert Dixon , 1987 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Flow of Culture : Tasmanian Studies 1987; (p. 122-141) The article reconstructs 'from verbal and visual evidence the kind of sensibility produced in early Tasmania by the aesthetic theory of associationism.' The author cites examples suggesting that 'associationism was not just another aspect of colonial sensibility, but a fundamental mechanism of psychological transition and accommodation at the very centre of Tasmania's immigrant culture.'(p.138)
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