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The Poems of Henry Kendall - Henry Kendall
The Poems of Henry Kendall - Henry Kendall Author:Henry Kendall A passage from the book... enry Kendall was the first Australian poet to draw his inspiration from the life, scenery and traditions of the country. In the beginnings of Australian poetry the names of two other men stand with his-Adam Lindsay Gordon, of English parentage and education, and Charles Harpur, born in Australia a generation earlie... more »r than Kendall. Harpur's work, though lacking vitality, shows fitful gleams of poetic fire suggestive of greater achievement had the circumstances of his life been more favourable. Kendall, whose lot was scarcely more fortunate, is a true singer; his songs remain, and are likely long to remain, attractive to poetry lovers. The poet's grandfather, Thomas Kendall, a Lincolnshire schoolmaster, met the Revd. Samuel Marsden when the latter was in England seeking assistants for his projected missionary work in New Zealand.« less