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Bell-Birds

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"Bell-Birds" is a poem by Australian writer Henry Kendall that was first published in The Sydney Morning Herald on 25 November 1867.[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

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The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature states: "Like Wordsworth with his 'sensations sweet', Kendall is sustained by his recollections of natural beauty amid the ugliness of later years in the 'city and alleys'."[2]

Further publications

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  • "Colonial Monthly: An Australian Magazine", May 1869
  • Leaves from Australian Forests by Henry Kendall (1869)
  • A Century of Australian Song edited by Douglas Sladen (1888)
  • The Oxford Book of Australian Verse edited by Walter Murdoch (1918)
  • Selections from Australian Poets edited by Bertram Stevens (1925)
  • Selected Poems of Henry Kendall edited by T. Inglis Moore (1957)
  • From the Ballads to Brennan edited by T. Inglis Moore (1964)
  • The Penguin Book of Australian Verse edited by Harry P. Heseltine (1972)
  • Australia Fair: Poems and Paintings edited Douglas Stewart (1974)
  • A Treasury of Australian Poetry (1982)
  • Cross-Country: A Book of Australian Verse edited by John Barnes (1984)
  • The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Beatrice Davis (1984)
  • My Country: Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years edited by Leonie Kramer (1985)
  • The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse edited by Les Murray (1986)
  • Favourite Australian Poems (1987)
  • The Macmillan Anthology of Australian Literature edited by Ken L. Goodwin and Alan Lawson (1990)
  • A Treasury of Bush Verse edited by G.A. Wilkes (1991)
  • The Penguin Book of 19th Century Australian Literature edited by Michael Ackland (1993)
  • 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 by 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)
  • 100 Australian Poems You Need to Know edited by Jamie Grant (2008)
  • The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry edited by John Kinsella (2009)
  • Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature edited by Nicholas Jose, Kerryn Goldsworthy, Anita Heiss, David McCooey, Peter Minter, Nicole Moore and Elizabeth Webby (2009)

Trivia

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  • Although the original title of the poem as printed was "Bell Birds", the Austlit catalog lists it as "Bell-Birds", the title as used in subsequent reprints.[3]

See also

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References

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