Songs from the Mountains
Collected poems by Henry Kendall / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Songs from the Mountains (1880) is the third collection of poems by Australian poet Henry Kendall, and the last to be published during his lifetime. It was released in hardback by William Maddock in 1880, and features the poet's widely anthologised poems "Bill the Bullock Driver", and "Araluen".
Author | Henry Kendall |
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Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Publisher | William Maddock, Sydney |
Publication date | 1880 |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Pages | 230 |
Preceded by | Leaves from Australian Forests |
The collection was originally published in 1880 containing the poem "The Song of Ninian Melville". Immediately after publication the publisher, believing the political satire to be possibly libelous, recalled the edition after some 250 copies had been distributed. The satire was excised and replaced by the poem "Christmas Creek". The book was re-published in January 1881.[1] "Jack Lockley told me that, as a message-boy at Maddock's, he personally delivered to subscribers about one hundred copies of the book before word came to the shop that [Ninian] Melville was about to launch legal proceedings... Jack was promptly sent out to retrace his steps and retrieve the delivered copies. He told me he did manage to collect all but perhaps half a dozen; one copy - like most other such rarities - is now in the Mitchell Library."[2]
The collection includes 35 poems by the author that are reprinted from various sources.[1]