Savage songs & wild romances : settler poetry and the indigene, 1830-1880 / / John O'Leary.

• Superior document: Cross/cultures : readings in the post/colonial literatures in English ; 138
• Author: O'Leary, John.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Cross/Cultures 138.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Notes: "Writers treated include George Copway, Alfred Domett, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, George McCrae, Thomas Pringle, George Rusden, Lydia Sigourney, and Alfred Street".--Back cover.; New Zealand author, John O'Leary.

Savage Songs andamp; Wild Romances considers the various types of poetry – from short songs and laments to lengthy ethnographic epics – which nineteenth-century settlers wrote about indigenous peoples as they moved into new territories in North America, South Africa, and Australasia. Drawing on a va...