"September in Australia" (1867) is a poem by Australian poet Henry Kendall.
It was originally published in The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper on 19 September 1867, and was subsequently reprinted in the author's single-author collections and a number of Australian poetry anthologies.
Critical reception Critic Carmel Gaffney called this poem "the most successful of Kendall's poems that include plaintiveness for past loves and memories, and that combine positive and negative aspects of the landscape in such a manner that a single mood dominates." She went on to note that, by combining these aspects and by "celebrating the differences of 'shadow and shine' as splendid manifestations of the season, Kendall manages to transcend his sorrows."Henry Kendall : The Muse of Australia edited by Russell McDougall, University of New England, 1992. "Chapter 7: Aspects of Kendall's Pastoral Muse" by Carmel Gaffney, pp150-151
Publication history
After the poem's initial publication in The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper in 1867 it was reprinted as follows:
The Leader, 28 September 1867 The Australasian, 28 September 1867 Leaves from Australian Forests by Henry Kendall, George Robertson, 1869 Poems of Henry Kendall by Henry Kendall, George Robertson, 1886 A Century of Australian Song edited by Douglas Sladen, Walter Scott Publishers, 1888 An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by Bertram Stevens, Angus and Robertson, 1907 The Golden Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Bertram Stevens, Angus and Robertson, 1909 The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse edited by Walter Murdoch, Oxford University Press, 1918 Selections from Australian Poets edited by Bertram Stephens and George Mackaness, Cornstalk Publishing, 1925 Australian Bush Songs and Ballads edited by Will Lawson, Frank Johnson, 1944 Rose Lorraine and Other Poems by Henry Kendall, W. H. Honey, 1945 Poets of Australia : An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by George Mackaness, Angus & Robertson, 1946 An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by George Mackaness, Angus & Robertson, 1952 Selected Poems of Henry Kendall edited by T. Inglis Moore, Angus and Robertson, 1957 From the Ballads to Brennan edited by T. Inglis Moore, Angus & Robertson, 1964 The Poetical Works of Henry Kendall edited by Thomas Thornton Reed (1966) Silence Into Song : An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by Clifford O'Brien, Rigby, 1968 A Treasury of Colonial Poetry, Currawong, 1982 Cross-Country : A Book of Australian Verse edited by John Barnes and Brian MacFarlane, Heinemann, 1984 Henry Kendall: Poetry, Prose and Selected Correspondence edited by Michael Ackland, University of Queensland Press, 1993
See also 1867 in Australian literature 1867 in poetry
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