"The Last of His Tribe" is a poem by Australian writer Henry Kendall that was first published in The Sydney Morning Herald on 27 September 1864, under the title "Woonoona: The Last of His Tribe".
It was later included in the author's poetry collection Leaves from Australian Forests (1869), and was subsequently reprinted in various newspapers, magazines and poetry anthologies (see below).
Reception
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature states: "In it Kendall captures the attractive nature of Aboriginal life and sentimentally mourns its passing."The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, 2nd edition, p450
Further publications
Leaves from Australian Forests by Henry Kendall, George Robertson, 1869 Poems of Henry Clarence Kendall, George Robertson, 1903 The Golden Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Bertram Stevens, Angus and Robertson, 1909 The Children's Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Bertram Stevens and George Mackaness, Angus and Robertson, 1913 Selections from the Australian Poets edited by Bertram Stevens, Cornstalk Publishing, 1913 Selected Poems of Henry Kendall edited by T. Inglis Moore, Angus and Robertson, 1957 "The Bulletin", 11 December 1957 Favourite Australian Poems edited by Ian Mudie, Rigby, 1963 From the Ballads to Brennan edited by T. Inglis Moore, Angus & Robertson, 1964 The Poetical Works of Henry Kendall edited by Thomas Thornton Reed, 1966 Silence Into Song : An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by Clifford O'Brien, Rigby, 1968 The Penguin Book of Australian Verse edited by Harry Heseltine, Penguin Books, 1972 The Collins Book of Australian Poetry edited by Rodney Hall, Collins, 1981 The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Beatrice Davis, Nelson, 1984 Cross-Country : A Book of Australian Verse edited by John Barnes and Brian MacFarlane, Heinemann, 1984 Two Centuries of Australian Poetry edited by Mark O’Connor, Oxford University Press, 1988 The Macmillan Anthology of Australian Literature edited by Ken L. Goodwin and Alan Lawson, Macmillan, 1990 A Treasury of Bush Verse edited by G. A. Wilkes, Angus and Robertson, 1991 Henry Kendall: Poetry, Prose and Selected Correspondence edited by Michael Ackland, University of Queensland Press, 1993 An Anthology of Australian Literature edited by Ch'oe Chin-yong and Dynthia Van Den Driesen, Hansin Munhwasa, 1995 Classic Australian Verse edited by Maggie Pinkney, Five Mile Press, 2001 Our Country : Classic Australian Poetry : From Colonial Ballads to Paterson & Lawson edited by Michael Cook, Little Hills Press, 2004 Two Centuries of Australian Poetry edited by Kathrine Bell, Gary Allen, 2007 An Anthology of Australian Poetry to 1920 edited by John Kinsella, University of Western Australia Library, 2007 60 Classic Australian Poems for Children edited by Chris Cheng, Random House, 2009
See also 1864 in poetry List of years in Australian literature Australian literature
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