A. B. ("Banjo") Paterson, 1864-1941
Biographical note
Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the district around Binalong, New South Wales where he spent much of his childhood. Paterson's more notable poems include "Waltzing Matilda", "The Man from Snowy River" and "Clancy of the Overflow".
Works
- The Animals Noah Forgot
- Happy Dispatches
- The Shearer's Colt
- Collected Prose
- Collected Poetry
- The Man from Snowy River and other verses [1895]
- The Old Bush Songs
- An Outback Marriage : a story of Australian life
- Rio Grande's Last Race and other verses
- Saltbush Bill, J. P.
- Three Elephant Power and other stories
