Miscellaneous Poems by James Brunton Stephens - 1880 1ST - Australian Poet

by James Brunton Stephens

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Miscellaneous Poems by J. Brunton Stephens - 1880 1ST Published by Macmillan 1880 James Brunton Stephens (1835-1902), poet, novelist, critic, schoolteacher and public servant, was born on 17 June 1835 at Bo'ness near Edinburgh, In December 1865 Stephens migrated to Queensland in the Flying Cloud, which reached Moreton Bay on 28 April 1866. At Brisbane on 10 November 1876, while a relieving teacher at Kelvin Grove, Stephens married Rosalie Mary Donaldson. In 1877 he was headmaster at Ashgrove. These years were 'Jog-trot, jog-trot. Peaceful monotony, all the happier because it has no annals', as he wrote to W. H. Traill. He was one of the founders of the Johnsonian Club in 1878, attended its meetings, entertained his friends, and wrote mainly reviews and criticism. Leaving Ashgrove at the end of 1882, he was nominally headmaster at Sandgate in January 1883 and then, reputedly through the influence of the governor's daughter, was appointed to the Colonial Secretary's Office as dispatch writer. For the next nineteen years Stephens was a devoted public servant. Though he was supposed to have some leisure for writing, he found his tasks exacting and time-consuming, but he wrote for the Brisbane Courier, the Australasian, and other newspapers, and contributed some articles to the 'Red Page' of the Bulletin. He also wrote three of his four most famous patriotic poems, 'The Dominion of Australia' (1877), 'An Australian National Anthem' (1890) and 'Fulfilment' (1901). He aspired in vai

• Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
• Year: 1880
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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