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[Biography of Banjo Paterson]
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Titles in Fiction/Novel Category Top
Outback Marriage, An A novel
Titles in Short Story Category Top
Amateur Gardener, The
Bullock, The
Cast-Iron Canvasser, The
Cat, The
Concerning a Dog-Fight
Concerning a Steeplechase Rider
Dan Fitzgerald Explains
Dog, The
Dog -- as a Sportsman, The
Done for the Double
Downfall of Mulligan's
His Masterpiece
Merino Sheep, The
Oracle, The
Sitting in Judgment
Thirsty Island
Three Elephant Power
Victor Second
White-When-He's-Wanted
Titles in Poem Category Top
"He Giveth His Beloved Sleep"
"In Re A Gentleman, One"
"Shouting" For A Camel
All Right 'Un, The
Amateur Rider, The
Ambition
Angel's Kiss, The
Another Fall Of Rain
Answer To Various Bards, An
Anthony Considine
Any Other Time
Art
As Long As Your Eyes Are Blue
Australian Stockman, The
Ballad Of Ducks, A
Ballad Of The 'Calliope', The
Beautiful Land Of Australia, The
Been There Before
Billy Barlow In Australia
Black Swans
Bold Jack Donahoo
Boss Of The 'Admiral Lynch', The
Bottle-O!
Bourke's Dream
Bringing Home The Cows
Brumby's Run
Bunch Of Roses, A
Bush Christening, A
Bushman, The
Bushman's Song, A
By The Grey Gulf-Water
City Of Dreadful Thirst, The
Clancy Of The Overflow
Colonial Experience
Come-By-Chance
Conroy's Gap
Corner Man, The
Daylight Is Dying, The
Disqualified Jockey's Story, A
Do They Know
Dream Of The Melbourne Cup, A
Driver Smith
Dwell Not With Me
Dying Stockman, The
Eumerella Shore, The
Evening In Dandaloo, An
Father Riley's Horse
Fed Up
First Surveyor, The
Flash Jack From Gundagai
Flying Gang, The
Free Selector, The
Freehold On The Plain, The
Frying Pan's Theology
Geebung Polo Club, The
Gilhooley's Estate
Great Calamity, The
Gundaroo Bullock, The
Hard Luck
Hawking
Hay And Hell And Booligal
How Gilbert Died
How M'Ginnis Went Missing
How The Favourite Beat Us, A
Idyll Of Dandaloo, An
Immigration
In Defence Of The Bush
In The Droving Days
In The Stable
It's Grand
It's Only A Way He's Got
Jim Carew
Jimmy Sago, Jackaroo
Jock!
John Gilbert (bushranger)
Johnny Boer
Johnson's Antidote
Last Parade, The
Last Trump, The
Last Week
Lay Of The Motor-Car
Loafers' Club, The
Lost
Lost Drink, The
Man From Ironbark, The
Man From Snowy River, The
Man Who Was Away, The
Maori's Wool, The
Maranoa Drovers, The
Matrimonial Stakes, The
Melting Of The Snow, The
Mountain Squatter, The
Mountain Station, A
Mulga Bill's Bicycle
Mulligan's Mare
Murrumbidgee Shearer, The
Mustering Song
My Mate Bill
My Religion
Mylora Elopement, The
National Song For Australia Felix, A
Not On It
Old Australian Ways, The
Old Bark Hut, The
Old Bullock Dray, The
Old Keg Of Rum, The
Old Pardon, The Son Of Reprieve
Old Survey, The
Old Timer's Steeplechase, The
On Kiley's Run
On The Road To Gundagai
On The Trek
Only A Jockey
Open Steeplechase, The
Our New Horse
Out Of Sight
Over The Range
Overlander, The
Paddy Malone In Australia
Paddy's Letter, 1857
Pannikin Poet, The
Passing Of Gundagai, The
Pearl Diver, The
Pioneers
Plains Of Riverine, The
Protest, The
Reveille, The
Reverend Mullineux, The
Riders In The Stand, The
Right In The Front Of The Army
Rio Grande's Last Race
River Bend
Road To Gundagai, The
Road To Hogan's Gap, The
Road To Old Man's Town, The
Saltbush Bill
Saltbush Bill On The Patriarchs
Saltbush Bill's Gamecock
Saltbush Bill's Second Fight
Saltbush Bill, J.P.
Sam Holt
Santa Claus
Santa Claus In The Bush
Scapegoat, The
Scotch Engineer, The
Shearing At Castlereagh
Sheep-Washers' Lament, The
Shepherd, The
Singer Of The Bush, A
Song Of The Artesian Water
Song Of The Australians In Action
Song Of The Federation
Song Of The Future
Song Of The Pen
Song Of The Squatter
Song Of The Wheat
Squatter Of The Olden Time, The
Squatter's Man, The
Stockman, The
Stockman's Last Bed, The
Stockmen Of Australia, The
Story Of Mongrel Grey, The
Stringy-Bark Cockatoo, The
Sunny New South Wales
Sunrise On The Coast
Swagman, The
Swagman's Rest, The
T.Y.S.O.N.
Tar And Feathers
That V.C.
There's Another Blessed Horse Fell Down
Those Names
Thousand Miles Away, A
Tommy Corrigan
Travelling Post Office, The
Two Aboriginal Songs
Two Devines, The
Under The Shadow Of Kiley's Hill
Voice From The Town, A
Walgett Episode, A
Wallabi Joe
Wallaby Brigade, The
Waltzing Matilda
Wargeilah Handicap, The
What Have The Cavalry Done
When Dacey Rode The Mule
Wild Colonial Boy, The
Wind's Message, The
Wisdom Of Hafiz, The
With French To Kimberley
With The Cattle
Biography of Banjo Paterson [Top]
Andrew Barton Paterson was born at Narambla, in New South Wales, on 17 February 1864, but grew up at Buckenbah and Illalong. He became a lawyer but devoted much of his time to writing, and gained popularity especially for his poetry and ballads. His best known poems are The Man from Snowy River (1892) on which a motion picture was loosely based, and Waltzing Matilda (1895) which slowly became an Australian symbol and national song. The poems he wrote for a Sydney newspaper led him into reporting, and he went to South Africa to cover the Boer War. Always a fair man, he had his doubts about the war and was a little too vocal about it for the tastes of some of his readers. During the First World War he served in Egypt as a Major in a Remount Unit, training horses for the war. This fit one of his main interests in life -- horses --a preoccupation which is very evident in his poems, and even in his choice of pseudonym --"The Banjo" was a race-horse.
The works for which Paterson is famous were mostly written before the First World War, and are collected in three books of poems, The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses (1895), Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses (1902), and Saltbush Bill, J.P. and Other Verses (1917). His prose works include An Outback Marriage (1906), and Three Elephant Power and Other Stories (1917), the latter of which is a collection of tall tales and serious (but often humourous) reporting. In fact, above all else it is perhaps Paterson's sense of humour that sets him apart from such balladists as Rudyard Kipling and Robert Service. It should also be noted that Paterson was writing his ballads before either of these became well-known, and there was little, if any, influence from either side. More likely, Paterson was influenced by the Scottish tradition of poetry (Paterson was of Scottish descent) which had been popularized in Australia by Adam Lindsay Gordon and others. Banjo Paterson died of a heart attack on 5 February, 1941.
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