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Alternative title: The Nevers of Poesy
  • Author:agent Charles Harpur http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/harpur-charles
Issue Details: First known date: 1858... 1858 Note
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In 1858 Charles Harpur was drawn into an argument with Frank Fowler, the editor of the Month : A Literary and Critical Journal. J. Normington-Rawling in Charles Harpur, An Australian (Angus & Robertson, 1962): 226 writes that 'Harpur had allowed himself to be inveigled into the position of defending as poetry the writings of Henry Parkes. In doing so he chose to see the issue as one between colonists [Harpur] and immigrants [Fowler]...'

Harpur states in the column 'Mr. Fowler has come hither ... for the express purpose of founding for us natives a national literature, on a critical basis ; and ... I have thus put forth this particular piece [The Nevers of Poetry] ... as my contribution to the canonical foundation of it ...'

A version of Harpur's poem The Nevers of Poetry is published as part of the article. Four footnotes, all signed C. H., follow the poem and continue the argument.

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First known date: 1858
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    y separately published work icon The Empire no. 2238 9 March 1858 Z1874210 1858 newspaper issue 1858 pg. 4-5
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— Appears in: The Empire , 28 May 1858; (p. 2) In 1858 Charles Harpur was drawn into an argument with Frank Fowler, the editor of the Month : A Literary and Critical Journal. J. Normington-Rawling in Charles Harpur, An Australian (Angus & Robertson, 1962): 226 writes that 'Harpur had allowed himself to be inveigled into the position of defending as poetry the writings of Henry Parkes. In doing so he chose to see the issue as one between colonists [Harpur] and immigrants [Fowler]...' Harpur wrote a Note with an accompanying poem published in the Empire (9 March 1858) which was commented on by Fowler in the pages of the Month. Harpur continued the argument with this Note in the 28 May 1858 issue of the Empire published with a version of his poem A Rhyme.
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