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Article: The Poems of Charles Harpur in Manuscript in the Mitchell Library and in Publications in the Nineteenth Century. An Analytical Finding List.(Book Review)
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Compiled and edited by Elizabeth Holt and Elizabeth Perkins. Canberra Australian Scholarly Editions 2002. Occasional Publications Series No 2 ISBN 0 7317 0371 5
Charles Harpur is the most important Australian poet to emerge in the first half of the nineteenth century. He was born in 1811 in Windsor NSW where his father was a school master and thus the young Charles acquired an education. This he expanded himself by wide and extensive reading which may be surprising considering the limited book resources of the young colony of New South Wales. As the son of convicts he was firmly placed in the Emancipist section of society in Sydney and had great difficulty in ...