"The Camp Within the West" is an 1898 poem by Australian poet Roderic Quinn.
It was first published in The Bulletin on 15 October 1898, and later in the poet's collections and other Australian poetry anthologies.
Analysis An observer notes a troop of men go by, "as pale as pale can be". Their "camp is in the West", as they march off to the land of the dead.
In a short piece titled "War: And Poetry" for The Bulletin Dowell O'Reilly called this poem "perhaps our most beautiful stray flower of verse, in its perfect inter-dependence of emotion and form."
Further publications
After the poem's initial publication in The Bulletin it was reprinted as follows:
The Hidden Tide by Roderic Quinn, Bulletin, 1899 The Bulletin, 29 December 1900 The Golden Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Bertram Stevens, Angus and Robertson, 1909 The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse edited by Walter Murdoch, Oxford University Press, 1918 Poems by Roderic Quinn, Angus and Robertson, 1920 An Australasian Anthology : Australian and New Zealand Poems edited by Percival Serle, R. H. Croll, and Frank Wilmot, Collins, 1927 The Bulletin, 29 January 1930 A Girdle of Song : By Poets of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Eire, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, and Rhodesia edited Edith M. Fry, British Authors' Press, 1944 Australian Bush Songs and Ballads edited by Will Lawson, Frank Johnson, 1944 Poets of Australia : An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by George Mackaness, Angus & Robertson, 1946 An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by George Mackaness, Angus & Robertson, 1952 From the Ballads to Brennan edited by T. Inglis Moore, Angus & Robertson, 1964
See also 1898 in poetry 1898 in literature 1898 in Australian literature Australian literature
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