Bards in the Wilderness by Brian Elliot and Adrian Mitchell

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."