Bell-Birds
1867 poem by Henry Kendall
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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]
Original title"Bell Birds"
First published inThe Sydney Morning Herald
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
| "Bell-Birds" | |
|---|---|
| by Henry Kendall | |
| Original title | "Bell Birds" |
| First published in | The Sydney Morning Herald |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Publication date | 25 November 1867 |
| Full text | |
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).[2]
Reception
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'."[3]
Further publications
- "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 and Brian MacFarlane, Heinemann, (1988)[4]
- 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, Angus and Robertson, 1991[5]
- 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, Hardie Grant, 2008[6]
- 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
- 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.[2]
See also
- 1867 in poetry
- List of years in Australian literature
- Australian literature
- Bell miner - the bird commonly known as a "bell bird"