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''Sea Spray and Smoke Drift'' (1867) is the first collection of
poems Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in ...
by Australian poet
Adam Lindsay Gordon Adam Lindsay Gordon (19 October 1833 – 24 June 1870) was a British-Australian poet, horseman, police officer and politician. He was the first Australian poet to gain considerable recognition overseas, and according to his contemporary, write ...
. It was released in
hardback A hardcover, hard cover, or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as case-bound) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occa ...
by George Robertson in 1867. The collection includes 27 poems by the author that are reprinted from various sources.


Contents

* "Podas Okus" * "Gone" * "Unshaven" * "Ye Wearie Wayfarer" * "Borrow'd Plumes" * "Pastor Cum" * "A Legend of Madrid" * "Fauconshawe" * "Rippling Water" * "Cui Bono" * "Bellona" * "The Song of the Surf" * "Whisperings in Wattle Boughs" * "Confiteor" * "Sunlight on the Sea" * "Delilah" * "From Lightning and Tempest" * "Wormwood and Nightshade" * "Ars Longa" * "The Last Leap" * "Quare Fatigasti" * Hippodromania ** " Visions in the Smoke" ** "The Fields of Coleraine" ** "Craedat Judaeus Apella" ** "Banker's Dream" ** "Ex Fumo Dare Lucem" * "The Roll of the Kettledrum; or, The Lay of the Last Charger"


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." 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."


See also

* Full text of the 1867 edition at the State Library of VictoriaState Library of Victoria – ''Sea Spray and Smoke Drift'' by Adam Lindsay Gordon
/ref> * 1867 in Australian literature *
1867 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * The first blue plaque is erected in London by the Royal Society of Arts on the birthplace (1788) of English poet ...


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sea Spray and Smoke Drift Australian poetry collections 1867 books