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  • The Letters of Charles Harpur and his Circle

    Supplementary Letters

    Edited by Paul Eggert, Chris Vening ...
    Series Book 2 - The Letters of Charles Harpur and his Circle
    Charles Harpur (1813-68) was the most important of Australia's colonial poets. In 2023 Sydney University Press published The Letters of Charles Harpur and his Circle, a selection of 200 letters and biographical documents, most previously unpublished, culled from libraries, archives and colonial newspapers. The present volume supplements and completes this work, presenting and extensively ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Letters of Charles Harpur and his Circle

    by Paul Eggert, Chris Vening ...
    This is the first collection in print of the letters of Australian colonial poet Charles Harpur (1813–68) and his circle. Supported by extensive annotation newly prepared for this edition, the 200 letters and life-documents open up successive phases of colonial culture from the 1830s to the 1860s in a newly focused way. Harpur’s two-way correspondence with poet Henry Kendall, and with poet and ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

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    by Jane Gleeson-White ...
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  • Best Oscar Wilde Quotes

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