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Macaulay's New Zealander single work   poetry   "It little profits that, an idle man,"
Issue Details: First known date: 1873... 1873 Macaulay's New Zealander
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Notes

  • The title of the poem refers to the imagined 'New Zealander' figure used in several of Macaulay's reviews - a future antipodean traveller who comes to visit London when it is in ruins. Stephens' poem is a witty reflection on such British views of the antipodean colonies and colonists. The first line references Tennyson's 'Ulysses'.

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