Add to ORKGSo wrote G. B Barton, Reader in English at the University of Sydney, in the introduction to his Literature in New South Wales (1866). This and his critical anthology, The Poets and Prose Writers of New South Wales (also 1866), were the first books on Australian literature. Although Barton recorded much valuable bibliographical information, he did not provide any systematic review along the lines he suggests in the above passage; however, his ideal of what literary history ought to provide comprehends the intentions of many who were to follow him with their accounts of the 'growth of letters' in this country.
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On the face of it, terms like 'the author,' the canon,' literature' - and its many sub-categories, ...
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