Wilmot gathered English verse written in the Cape Colony, Natal and the Transvaal into a single anthology. It opens with Thomas Pringle’s poems of emigrants, lion hunts and the desert, including the well-known Afar in the Desert, and moves on through settler verse about the landscape, the Cape and colonial life, with an editor’s preface on what could not be included.
A document of nineteenth-century settler poetry whose views of African peoples are those of colonial South Africa. Download the free EPUB.