Work(s) of Banjo Paterson

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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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