Golder Editorial : the Poetry of William Golder (1810–1876)
Golder’s poetry
Golder’s poetry
William Golder published five volumes of poetry:
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Recreations for Solitary Hours, consisting of Poems, Songs and Tales, with Notes (Glasgow: George Gallie; Edinburgh: W. Oliphant & Son; London: Simpkins, Marshall & Co; Dublin: J. Robertson; 1838).
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The New Zealand Minstrelsy: Containing Songs and Poems on Colonial Subjects (Wellington: R. Stokes and W. Lyon, 1852).
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The Pigeons’ Parliament; A Poem of the Year 1845. In Four Cantos with Notes. To which is added, Thoughts on the Wairarapa, and Other Stanzas (Wellington: W. Lyon, 1854).
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The New Zealand Survey; A Poem in Five Cantoes. With Notes Illustrative of New Zealand Progress and Future Prospects. Also The Crystal Palace of 1851; A Poem in Two Cantoes. With other Poems and Lyrics (Wellington: J. Stoddart and Co., 1867).
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The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems (Wellington: W. Golder, 1871).
The four volumes he published in New Zealand provide the focus for the edition.
Each poem is displayed together with the pertinent page images from the original publications and, where such material is already available, links to other related materials in the collection. Because each text is a component of the NZETC digital library, it may be encountered as a result of a search of the library beginning in material which is not part of the edition. Each page which is part of the edition is clearly identified as part of the Golder corpus.