Sea Spray and Smoke Drift

Sea Spray and Smoke Drift
Author Adam Lindsay Gordon
Country Australia
Language English
Publisher George Robertson
Publication date
 1867
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 171pp
Preceded by –
Followed by Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes

Sea Spray and Smoke Drift (1867) is the first collection of poems by Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon. It was released in hardback by George Robertson in 1867.

The collection includes 27 poems by the author that are reprinted from various sources.[1]

Contents

Critical reception

Reviewing a reissue of the collection in 1909 The Australasian found: "If Gordon is the poet of the horse, he may also be called the poet of the golden wattle. Considering how genuinely poetical and distinctive in tone is much of the contents of this volume, it seems strange that the book was so entirely ignored by the Australian public. But Gordon's fate was that of many another poet, cut off in his prime, and not properly estimated until appreciation was too late to be of much value."[2]

In 1994 The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature noted "There are several ballads, e.g. 'The Roll of the Kettledrum', and some melancholy poems in which Gordon regrets his youthful follies and wasted opportunities. 'Hippodromania', a poem in five parts, is an indication of the importance of horses and horse-racing both to Gordon and to Australia."[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Sea Spray and Smoke Drift by Adam Lindsay Gordon
  2. ↑ "Miscellaneous Works", The Australasian, 18 September 1909, p50
  3. ↑ The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature 2nd edition, p681
  4. ↑ State Library of Victoria – Sea Spray and Smoke Drift by Adam Lindsay Gordon
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