September in Australia

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First published inThe Sydney Morning Herald
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Publication date19 September 1867
"September in Australia"
by Henry Kendall
First published inThe Sydney Morning Herald
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Publication date19 September 1867
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"September in Australia" (1867) is a poem by Australian poet Henry Kendall.[1]

It was originally published in The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper on 19 September 1867,[2] and was subsequently reprinted in the author's single-author collections and a number of Australian poetry anthologies.[1]

Critic Carmel Gaffney called this poem "the most successful of Kendall's poems that include plaintiveness for past loves and memories, and that combine positive and negative aspects of the landscape in such a manner that a single mood dominates." She went on to note that, by combining these aspects and by "celebrating the differences of 'shadow and shine' as splendid manifestations of the season, Kendall manages to transcend his sorrows."[3]

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