An Anthology of Australian Verse
1906
Bertram Stevens's 1906 anthology, the first substantial gathering of Australian poetry, arranged poet by poet from William Charles Wentworth through Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Kendall to Paterson and Lawson. Stevens opens with an essay on why a colonial literature took so long to find its own subject.
- Introduction
- William Charles Wentworth
- Charles Harpur
- William Forster
- James Lionel Michael
- Daniel Henry Deniehy
- Richard Rowe
- Sir Henry Parkes
- Thomas Alexander Browne (`Rolf Boldrewood')
- Adam Lindsay Gordon
- Henry Kendall
- Marcus Clarke
- Patrick Moloney
- Alfred Domett
- James Brunton Stephens
- Thomas Bracken
- Ada Cambridge
- Alexander Bathgate
- Philip Joseph Holdsworth
- Mary Hannay Foott
- Henry Lea Twisleton
- Mrs. James Glenny Wilson
- Edward Booth Loughran
- John Liddell Kelly
- Robert Richardson
- James Lister Cuthbertson
- John Farrell
- Arthur Patchett Martin
- Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen
- Victor James Daley
- Alice Werner
- Ethel Castilla
- Francis William Lauderdale Adams
- Thomas William Heney
- Patrick Edward Quinn
- John Sandes
- Inez K. Hyland
- George Essex Evans
- Mary Colborne-Veel
- John Bernard O'Hara
- A. Sinclair
- Sydney Jephcott
- Andrew Barton Paterson (`Banjo')
- Jessie Mackay
- Henry Lawson
- Arthur Albert Dawson Bayldon
- Jennings Carmichael
- Agnes L. Storrie
- Martha M. Simpson
- William Gay
- Edward Dyson
- Dowell O'Reilly
- David MacDonald Ross
- Mary Gilmore
- Bernard O'Dowd
- Edwin James Brady
- Will. H. Ogilvie
- Roderic Quinn
- David McKee Wright
- Christopher John Brennan
- John Le Gay Brereton
- Arthur H. Adams
- Ethel Turner
- Johannes Carl Andersen
- Dora Wilcox
- Ernest Currie
- George Charles Whitney
- Notes on the Poems
- Biographical Notes