Bards in the Wilderness
Australian Colonial Poetry to 1920
Compiled and edited by Brian Elliot and Adrian Mitchell
Thomas Nelson, 1970 [First Edition], hardcover
Very good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, dusty fore-edges, minor grubby markings to covers, previous owners gift inscription on front fly-leaf (see photographs)
"This is an anthology of colonial poems selected not on the 'beauties of literature' principle but for their historical importance -- because they are most characteristic and lively and give the most vivid and immediate impression of an historical past which we are only now in a position to view in an historical perspective."