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  • Author:agent Douglas Stewart http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/stewart-douglas
Issue Details: First known date: 1940-1949... 1940-1949 Glencoe
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Epic poem in 16 numbered parts. E. Morris Miller and Frederick T. Macartney's Australian Literature: A Bibliography to 1938: Extended to 1950 (1956) :448 comments:'Glencoe is a sequence of ballads having for its theme the Highland Massacre in 1691. The first and last, by way of prologue and epilogue, introduce, in a tavern some months after the event, Bottle-nosed Jock, whose tipsily vehement condemnation of the atrocity gains force from the revelation of his connection with the Campbell clan primarily responsible for it. In the rest of the poems, which are mostly in dialect, incidents of the massacre are described in a variety of metres in the border-ballad manner, ...'.

Notes

  • Dedication: To Norman Lindsay
  • Author's note: The Massacre of Glencoe took place before dawn on 13 February 1691, when troops under Captain Robert Campbell of Glenlyon killed thirty-eight of the Clan MacIan of Glencoe, a sept of the MacDonalds comprising about two hundred men, women, and children. Some others perished as they attempted to escape in a snowstorm. The men primarily responsible were the Earl of Breadalbane, chief of a powerful branch of the Clan Campbell, and John Dalrymple, the Master of Stair. The first of this cycle of ballads is set in an ale-house in Edinburgh some months after the event; the action then moves back to describe the sequence of incidents leading up to the massacre. Some of the ballads have been published in the Bulletin. D. S.
  • Broadcast by BBC in [1956]

Contents

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:Angus and Robertson , 1947 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Glencoe : Ii"The first the day,' says bottle-nosed Jock,", Douglas Stewart , single work poetry (p. 9-11)
Glencoe : IIi""Lochiel, Appin, Keppoch, Glengarry, chiefs o' the eagle's", Douglas Stewart , single work poetry (p. 12-15)
Glencoe : IIIi""The word that's come frae the English king", Douglas Stewart , single work poetry (p. 16-17)
Glencoe : IVi""I fear the night of snow and wind", Douglas Stewart , single work poetry (p. 18-20)
Glencoe : Vi"The Earl of Breadalbane seems to flinch", Douglas Stewart , single work poetry (p. 21-22)
Glencoe : VIi"Round and gentle and dark and plump", Douglas Stewart , single work poetry (p. 23-24)
Glencoe : VIIi""So big MacIan has made a slip", Douglas Stewart , single work poetry (p. 25)
Glencoe : VIIIi"Heavily droops the long Dutch nose,", Douglas Stewart , single work poetry (p. 26)
Glencoe : IXi""Oho, oho,", Douglas Stewart , single work poetry (p. 27)
Glencoe : Xi"Take Loch Linnhe's wavelets and put them in a sack,", Douglas Stewart , single work poetry (p. 28)
Glencoe : XIi""Oh, come ye in war or come ye in peace,", Douglas Stewart , single work poetry (p. 29-30)
Glencoe : XIIi""A card for you and a card for me,"", Douglas Stewart , single work poetry (p. 31-32)
Glencoe : XIIIi""I willna hear them, I willna hear them, I willna hear the", Douglas Stewart , single work poetry (p. 33-34)
Glencoe : XIVi""Out o' your bed, young John MacIan,", Douglas Stewart , single work poetry (p. 35-36)
Glencoe : XVi"Sigh, wind in the pine;", Douglas Stewart , single work poetry (p. 37)
Glencoe : XVIi""Come in, come in, you bottle-nosed Jock", Douglas Stewart , single work poetry (p. 38-39)
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

      1940-1949 .
      Extent: 20 leavesp.
      (Manuscript) assertion
      Note/s:
      • Broadcast by the A.B.C.

      Holdings

      Held at: University of Queensland University of Queensland Library Fryer Library
      Local Id: H1678
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Works about this Work

Douglas Stewart's 'Glencoe' Susan Ballyn , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Short Fiction in the New Literatures in English : Proceedings of the Nice Conference of the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies 1989; (p. 55-61)
Identity : Invention or Discovery? Vincent Buckley , 1980 single work criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , August vol. 24 no. 8 1980; (p. 12-19) Celts in Australia : Imagination and Identity 1981; (p. 5-23)
Motif in the Work of Douglas Stewart Robert D. FitzGerald , 1963 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Elements of Poetry 1963; (p. 25-50) Considerations : New Essays on Kenneth Slessor, Judith Wright and Douglas Stewart 1977; (p. 143-168)
Barbarism and Ballad Ken Levis , 1949 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 10 no. 2 1949; (p. 112-114)
— Review of Glencoe Douglas Stewart , 1940-1949 single work poetry
The Campbells Are Coming S. H. O'L. , 1948 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 24 January 1948; (p. 6)
— Review of Glencoe Douglas Stewart , 1940-1949 single work poetry
Claymores and Nullah Nullahs L. I. Shephard , 1948 single work review
— Appears in: The Australasian Book News and Literary Journal , February vol. 2 no. 8 1948; (p. 422-224)
— Review of Pacific Sea Nan McDonald , 1947 selected work poetry ; Glencoe Douglas Stewart , 1940-1949 single work poetry ; Pacific Sea Nan McDonald , 1947 selected work poetry
[Review] Pacific Sea [and] Glencoe [and] The Secret Fire Marjorie Nichols , 1948 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Observer , 7 February 1948; (p. 320)
— Review of Pacific Sea Nan McDonald , 1947 selected work poetry ; Glencoe Douglas Stewart , 1940-1949 single work poetry ; The Secret Fire : Poems 'Mary Lisle' , 1947 selected work poetry
[Review] Pacific Sea [et al] Michael Thwaites , 1948 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 7 no. 3 1948; (p. 202-203)
— Review of Pacific Sea Nan McDonald , 1947 selected work poetry ; A Drum for Ben Boyd Francis Webb , 1948 sequence poetry ; Beware the Cuckoo and Other Poems Ernest G. Moll , 1947 selected work poetry ; Glencoe Douglas Stewart , 1940-1949 single work poetry ; Wind from Caribbee : Poems Edna Tredinnick , 1948 selected work poetry
Conducting a Massacre Breac Dearg , 1948 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 10 March vol. 69 no. 3552 1948; (p. 2)
— Review of Glencoe Douglas Stewart , 1940-1949 single work poetry
The Campbells Are Coming S. H. O'L. , 1948 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 24 January 1948; (p. 6)
— Review of Glencoe Douglas Stewart , 1940-1949 single work poetry
Identity : Invention or Discovery? Vincent Buckley , 1980 single work criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , August vol. 24 no. 8 1980; (p. 12-19) Celts in Australia : Imagination and Identity 1981; (p. 5-23)
Motif in the Work of Douglas Stewart Robert D. FitzGerald , 1963 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Elements of Poetry 1963; (p. 25-50) Considerations : New Essays on Kenneth Slessor, Judith Wright and Douglas Stewart 1977; (p. 143-168)
Douglas Stewart's 'Glencoe' Susan Ballyn , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Short Fiction in the New Literatures in English : Proceedings of the Nice Conference of the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies 1989; (p. 55-61)
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