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Issue Details:
First known date:
1919...
no.
231
January
1919
of
The School Paper : Grades VII and VIII
est. 1896-1932
The School Paper for Grades VII and VIII
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Notes
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Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.
Other material in this issue includes:
- Drama: 'Part of Hamlet's Instructions to the Players' from Hamlet by English playwright William Shakespeare (q.v.), [i]; 'Soliloquy on Sleep' from Henry IV Part II, Act III, sc.i, by William Shakespeare (q.v.), with illus., [i]-ii; 'Mercy' from The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, sc.i, by William Shakespeare (q.v.), ii-iii.
- Poetry: 'The Rhine : Lord Byron to His Sister' from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by English poet George Gordon, Lord Byron (q.v.), with illus. 'River Rhine, Town of Konigswinter, Southern Extremity of the Siebengebirge, or Seven Mountains', iv-v; 'Nature' from 'Tintern Abbey' by English poet William Wordsworth, v; 'Sand of the Desert in an Hour-Glass' by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (q.v.), with illus. 'A Caravan' and 'Australian Light Horse in the Jordan Valley', vi-vii; 'Hills of Home' by British soldier Lance-Corporal Malcolm Hemphrey, viii; 'How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix' by English poet Robert Browning (q.v.), with illus. 'I poured down his throat our last measure of wine', viii-x; 'The Debt Unpayable' by British poet F. W. Bourdillon (1852-1921), orig. published in The Spectator, London, xi; 'Each and All' by American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (q.v.), xi-xii
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Preceding or following each piece is a short glossary of the longer words contained therein, as well as notes about people and places mentioned, and comments on the metre of poetry. There are also often 'General Notes' which ask the reader questions about the work.
Contents
* Contents derived from the 1919 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Ye Wearie Wayfarer!,
single work
extract
(p. xiii-xiv)
Note:
- This extract consists of seven stanzas of the original, 'Ye Warie Wayfarer : Hys Ballad : In Eight Fyttes', from 'Boot and saddle, see, the slanting' to '"Question not, but live and labor'.
- With illustration 'Pilgrims at the Grave of the Poet Gordon, Brighton, Victoria, 1st September, 1918' from The Leader, Melbourne.
- In Picardyi"Have you seen them march to battle", single work poetry war literature (p. xvi)
- The Warrigali"Through forest boles the storm-wind rolls,", single work poetry (p. xv-xvi)
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