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Biography

Name: Charles Harpur
Birth Date: 1813
Death Date: June 10, 1866
Place of Birth: Windsor, Australia
Place of Death: Eurobodalla, Australia
Nationality: Australian
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of Charles Harpur
12,084 words, approx. 40 pages
Charles Harpur is now widely regarded as Australia's most important nineteenth-century poet, and he will probably be classed one day among the major thinkers of the pre-Federation period. The scope and volume of his writings are impressive,...
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Biography of Charles Harpur
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Born in Australia , Charles Harpur (1813-1866) was the first important Australian poet and wrote the first sonnet sequence ever published in Australia. In addition, The Bushrangers was the first play by a native-born Australian both to be performed and...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Charles Harpur Information
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Charles Harpur (23 January 1813 – 10 June 1868) was an Australian...


News and Journals
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"HOW NOURISHING IS NATURE": IMAGINARY POSSESSION OF LANDSCAPE IN HARPUR AND SKRZYNECKI.(Charles Harpur; Peter Skrzynecki)(Critical Essay)
12/22/2000: 3,741 words, approx. 13 pages
NOTIONS OF PLACE have been central in the cultural self-definition of settler colonies like Australia, since difference in place is the most visible marker distinguishing the colony from the imperial motherland.(1) In Australian literary discourses, place is very much tied up with landscape,...
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Australian Academic & Research Libraries
The Poems of Charles Harpur in Manuscript in the Mitchell Library and in Publications in the Nineteenth Century. An Analytical Finding List.(Book Review)
09/01/2002: 915 words, approx. 3 pages
Compiled and edited by Elizabeth Holt and Elizabeth Perkins. Canberra Australian Scholarly Editions 2002. Occasional Publications Series No 2 ISBN 0 7317 0371 5 Charles Harpur is the most important Australian poet to emerge in the first half of the nineteenth century....
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Elizabeth Perkins
12,200 words, approx. 41 pages
In the following excerpt, Perkins details Harpur's education, family circumstances, and controversial episodes in the poet's youth. Perkins then balances an explanation of Harpur's weaknesses as a lyricist with his originality, spirit, and narrative skill.
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Critical Essay by Judith Wright
10,697 words, approx. 36 pages
In the following excerpt, Wright addresses Harpur's family background, early employment, and the unprofessional editing of a posthumous edition of his works. The essay concludes with an attempt to summarize the importance of Harpur's work in Australia's literary canon.
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Critical Essay by Adrian Mitchell
9,482 words, approx. 32 pages
In the following essay, originally delivered as a lecture in 1992, Mitchell considers the reasons and methods for reading Australian colonial poetry and focuses on Harpur's efforts to combine new experiences and expressions of thought with a sense of the familiar.
 


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