Poetry Codex

Victorian

Alexander Wilmot

1836–1923

Alexander Wilmot (1836–1923) collected and arranged The Poetry of South Africa (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington; Cape Town: J. C. Juta & Co., 1887), an anthology of verse from the Cape Colony, Natal and the Transvaal, and printed some of his own verse in it.

This archive holds 6 poems printed under this name in that volume, in Wilmot’s spelling. His own pieces concern the 1820 Settlers, the drought lands and the Transvaal. Dates are those of a standard reference.

Poems (6)

  1. In the Drought Lands of South Africa
  2. The Landing of the British Settlers of 1820
  3. In the Country of Mankoraan
  4. Drink
  5. South Africa Rediviva
  6. The Beautiful Island of Dreams

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