John O’Leary specializes in the study of settler writing about indigenous peoples. His articles and reviews have appeared in American, British, Australian, and New Zealand scholarly journals; Savage Songs & Wild Romances is his first book. He lives in Wellington, New Zealand.

• AcknowledgementsIllustrationsIntroductionTexts in Context: Nineteenth-Century Settler Culture“Bold, unfettered rhapsodies”: Nineteenth-Century Versifications of Indigenous Orature“We owe them all that we possess”: ‘Savage’ Songs and Laments“Unlocking the fountains of the heart”: Settler Verse and the Politics of SympathyIndigenous Romeos & Juliets: Romantic Verse Melodramas“In their strange customs versed”: Ethnographic Verse EpicsConclusionAppendixWorks CitedIndex

John O’Leary specializes in the study of settler writing about indigenous peoples. His articles and reviews have appeared in American, British, Australian, and New Zealand scholarly journals; Savage Songs & Wild Romances is his first book. He lives in Wellington, New Zealand.

• AcknowledgementsIllustrationsIntroductionTexts in Context: Nineteenth-Century Settler Culture“Bold, unfettered rhapsodies”: Nineteenth-Century Versifications of Indigenous Orature“We owe them all that we possess”: ‘Savage’ Songs and Laments“Unlocking the fountains of the heart”: Settler Verse and the Politics of SympathyIndigenous Romeos & Juliets: Romantic Verse Melodramas“In their strange customs versed”: Ethnographic Verse EpicsConclusionAppendixWorks CitedIndex

John O’Leary specializes in the study of settler writing about indigenous peoples. His articles and reviews have appeared in American, British, Australian, and New Zealand scholarly journals; Savage Songs & Wild Romances is his first book. He lives in Wellington, New Zealand.

• AcknowledgementsIllustrationsIntroductionTexts in Context: Nineteenth-Century Settler Culture“Bold, unfettered rhapsodies”: Nineteenth-Century Versifications of Indigenous Orature“We owe them all that we possess”: ‘Savage’ Songs and Laments“Unlocking the fountains of the heart”: Settler Verse and the Politics of SympathyIndigenous Romeos & Juliets: Romantic Verse Melodramas“In their strange customs versed”: Ethnographic Verse EpicsConclusionAppendixWorks CitedIndex