The Last of His Tribe (poem)
Appearance
"The Last of His Tribe" | |
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by Henry Kendall | |
Written | 1864 |
First published in | The Sydney Morning Herald |
Country | Australia |
Language | English |
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"The Last of His Tribe" is a poem by Australian writer Henry Kendall that was first published in The Sydney Morning Herald on 27 September 1864, under the title "Woonoona: The Last of His Tribe".[1]
It was later included in the author's poetry collection Leaves from Australian Forests (1869), and was subsequently reprinted in various newspapers, magazines and poetry anthologies (see below).
Reception
[edit]The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature states: "In it Kendall captures the attractive nature of Aboriginal life and sentimentally mourns its passing."[2]
Further publications
[edit]- Leaves from Australian Forests by Henry Kendall (1869)
- Poems of Henry Clarence Kendall, (1903)
- The Golden Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Bertram Stevens (1903)
- The Children's Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Bertram Stevens (1913)
- Selections from Australian Poets edited by Bertram Stevens and George Mackaness (1913)
- Selected Poems of Henry Kendall edited by T. Inglis Moore (1957)
- "The Bulletin", 11 December 1957
- Favourite Australian Poems edited by Ian Mundie (1963)
- From the Ballads to Brennan edited by T. Inglis Moore (1964)
- The Poetical Works of Henry Kendall edited Thomas Thornton Reed (1966)
- Silence Into Song : An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by Clifford O'Brien (1968)
- The Penguin Book of Australian Verse edited by Harry P. Heseltine (1972)
- The Collins Book of Australian Verse edited Rodney Hall (1981)
- The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Beatrice Davis (1984)
- Cross-Country : A Book of Australian Verse edited by John Barnes (1984)
- Two Centuries of Australian Poetry edited by Mark O'Connor (1988)
- The Macmillan Anthology of Australian Literature edited by Ken L. Goodwin and Alan Lawson (1990)
- A Treasury of Bush Verse by G.A. Wilkes (1991)
- Henry Kendall : Poetry, Prose and Selected Correspondence edited by Michael Ackland (1993)
- An Anthology of Australian Literature edited by Ch'oe Chin-yong and Dynthia Van Den Driesen (1995)
- Classic Australian Verse edited Maggie Pinkney (2001)
- Our Country: Classic Australian Verse: From the Colonial Ballads to Paterson & Lawson edited by Michael Cook (2004)
- Two Centuries of Australian Poetry edited by Kathrine Bell (2007)
- An Anthology of Australian Poetry to 1920 edited by John Kinsella (2007)
- 60 Classic Australian Poems for Children edited by Chris Cheng (2009)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Woonoona: The Last of His Tribe" by Henry Kendall, The Sydney Morning Herald, 30 September 1864, p8
- ^ The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, 2nd edition, p450