This edition of William Golder’s poetry is designed to make the poetry of a British settler poet available to readers in New Zealand and internationally with interests in the intellectual and cultural history of colonisation and the origins of modern New Zealand.
The corpus of Golder’s publications, spanning the first thirty years of British settlement in the Wellington region of New Zealand, constitutes an important taonga (or treasure) of Pakeha (or British settler) culture.
The edition is a work in progress, being developed in three dimensions:
- the 4 volumes of poetry Golder published after arrival in Wellington in 1840 (the equivalent of a scholarly edition of a writer’s works);
- contextual materials of many kinds — journalism, pictures, diaries, letters, reports, music, books of all kinds to do with the responses of colonists to their new world — which provide access to the cultural and intellectual environment of early Wellington and which assist interpretation of Golder’s poetry; and
- published research, which is being progressively republished in conjunction with these materials as an immediately accessible interpretive perspective (the equivalent of a book of essays on an author’s works).
- Golder Editorial : the Poetry of William Golder (1810–1876)
- New Zealand Minstrelsy
- The New Zealand Survey
- The Pigeons’ Parliament; a Poem of the Year 1845. In Four Cantos, With Notes. To which is added, Thoughts on the Wairarapa and other Stanzas
- The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- Diary of William Golder, 1873
- Recreations for Solitary Hours
- The New Zealand Minstrelsy (1852). William Golder and the beginnings of a national literature in New Zealand.
- Futurity and Epic: William Golder’s ‘The New Zealand Survey’ (1867) and the formation of British New Zealand
- William Golder’s The New Zealand Survey (1865): the relation between poetry and photography as media of representation
- The New Zealand Minstrelsy : an emigrant poet affirms his vocation
- Poets in the News: John Milton and William Golder in Early Wellington
- Versions of the Sublime: Illustrating Paradise Lost
- Cultural Ballast: Stones and meanings flowing in time and space
- Thinking Technology: William Golder and Samuel Butler in the pre-history of New Zealand as a modern technological society
- Travels in New Zealand : with a map of the country
- The Songs of Scotland adapted to their appropriate melodies; arranged with pianoforte accompaniments by G. F. Graham, T. M. Mudie, J. T. Surenne, H. E. Dibdin, Finlay Dun, &c. Illustrated with historical, biographical, and critical notices
- The Aborigines of New Zealand: Two Lectures
- Geological and other Reports
- Mahoe Leaves; Being a Selection of Sketches of New Zealand and Its Inhabitants, and Other Matters Concerning Them
- The Nature of Art
- On Government
- Translation of an Ancient Chaldee Manuscript, Found Near the Fish Ponds at Government House
- The New Zealand Evangelist
- The Christian Philosopher; or, Science and Religion
- Selected Images from the Collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library
- Sketchbook of James Coutts Crawford
- The New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, 20 June, 1840
- The New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Wednesday, December 15, 1841
- The New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator No. 185, Saturday, October 15, 1842
- The New Zealand Spectator and Cook’s Strait Guardian, Saturday, November 22, 1845
- The New Zealand Spectator and Cook’s Strait Guardian, 17 March, 1847
- The New Zealand Spectator and Cook’s Strait Guardian, Saturday, April 17, 1847
- The New Zealand Spectator and Cook’s Strait Guardian, Saturday, March 8, 1851
- The New Zealand Spectator and Cook’s Strait Guardian, Saturday, March 15, 1851
- The New Zealand Spectator and Cook’s Strait Guardian, Saturday, July 26, 1851
- The New Zealand Spectator and Cooks’s Strait Guardian, Wednesday, July 30, 1851
- The New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Wednesday 6 August, 1851
- The New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, 24 July, 1852
- The New Zealand Spectator and Cook’s Strait Guardian, Wednesday, January 19, 1853
- The New Zealand Spectator and Cook’s Strait Guardian, Wednesday, August 14, 1861
- The New Zealand Spectator and Cook’s Strait Guardian, Saturday, October 5, 1861
- The New Zealand Spectator and Cook’s Strait Guardian, Wednesday, October 16, 1861
- The New Zealand Spectator and Cook’s Strait Guardian, Saturday, December 7, 1861
- The New Zealand Spectator and Cook’s Strait Guardian, Wednesday, March 5, 1862
- The New Zealand Spectator and Cook’s Strait Guardian, Wednesday, March 19, 1862
- The New Zealand Spectator and Cook’s Strait Guardian, Saturday, March 22, 1862
- The New Zealand Spectator and Cook’s Strait Guardian, Saturday, March 29, 1862
- The New Zealand Spectator and Cook’s Strait Guardian, Saturday, April 5, 1862
- The New Zealand Spectator and Cook’s Strait Guardian, Wednesday, April 16, 1862
- The New Zealand Spectator and Cook’s Strait Guardian, Saturday, April 19, 1862
- The New Zealand Spectator and Cook’s Strait Guardian, Wednesday, May 7, 1862
- The New Zealand Spectator and Cook’s Strait Guardian, Saturday, May 31, 1862