Where the Pelican Builds and Other Poems

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Where the Pelican Builds and Other Poems
Author Mary Hannay Foott
CountryAustralia
Language English
PublisherGordon and Gotch
Publication date
1885
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pages48

Where the Pelican Builds and Other Poems (1885) was the first, and only major, collection of poems by Australian poet Mary Hannay Foott. It was released in hardback by Gordon and Gotch publishers, Brisbane, in 1885. [1] It features the poet's best-known work, "Where the Pelican Builds". The collection was republished in London in 1890 under the title Morna Lee and Other Poems, with several additional works.

Contents

The original collection includes 30 poems by the author that are reprinted from various sources. [1]

Contents

Critical reception

Writing in The Australasian soon after the book's publication a reviewer stated that the poems "Mrs Foott...has always had the great merit of giving us a faithful reflex of the actual life and nature existing before her eyes, and is one of those who have helped to make intelligible to dwellers in town the character and the visbible aspects and the romantic and poetic associations of life in the far solititude sof central Australia. And this quality of faithful realism of view in the first place, as a foundation for poetic treatment, is as apparaent in these poems as in her bright and graphic prose." [2]

A reviewer in The Queenslander found merit, of a kind: "As a rule our local writers are below mediocrity, and one is almost afraid to open a volume of poems when informed that it is the work of a local author, but in the case of Mrs. Foott matters are different, and it is pleasing, therefore, to welcome to the world of letters one who has undoubted claims to recognition as an Australian songstress. The poems are all of them comparatively short pieces — most of them dealing with Australian subjects — and throughout these latter runs a strong feeling of affection and admiration of the new country destined, if Mrs. Foott's aspirations are fulfilled, to become great and glorious. Though there is nothing excessively striking, all the pieces are meritorious to a certain extent, the phraseology exceedingly happy at times, and the versification and rhyming correct and pleasing." [3]

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