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y Marvellous Martin I single work poetry "I looked and saw a low-browed Creature pass"

Author:agent Charles Harpur http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/harpur-charles

Issue Details: First known date: 1853... 1853 Marvellous Martin I

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Notes

Elizabeth Holt and Elizabeth Perkins list two titles, 'Marvellous Martin I' and 'Marvellous Martin II' in The Poems of Charles Harpur in Manuscript in the Mitchell Library and in Publication in the Nineteenth Century : An Analytical Finding List p.67.
'Marvellous Martin I' comprises lines 132-156 from 'The Temple of Infamy' (Elizabeth Perkins, Poetical Works of Charles Harpur p. 96).

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Alternative title: From : The Temple of Infamy

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y The Penguin Book of Australian Satirical Verse Australian Satirical Verse Philip Neilsen (editor), Ringwood New York (City) : Penguin , 1986 Z517595 1986 anthology poetry extract satire humour war literature Ringwood New York (City) : Penguin , 1986
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1986
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pg. 38
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y The Sting in the Wattle : Australian Satirical Verse Philip Neilsen (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1993 Z375066 1993 anthology poetry correspondence extract satire humour war literature St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1993
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1993
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pg. 12

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Rhetoric and the Man : Charles Harpur and the Call to Armed Rebellion Elizabeth Perkins , 1986 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Age Monthly Review , September vol. 6 no. 5 1986; (p. 14-17)