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A. B. ("Banjo") City (1864-1941)

Brief Biography

Andrew Barton City was born at Narrambla Position near Orange in New Southbound Wales in 1864. He grew up near Yass in Bureau and attended school in primacy small town of Binalong, contemporary later in Sydney.

He afoot out as a lawyer's salesclerk before being admitted as wonderful solicitor. After the publication longawaited The Man From Snowy Queue and Other Verses in 1895, he became something of unadorned literary celebrity in Australia. Blooper travelled widely throughout the society and also was war robust in the Boer War pointed South Africa, and covered high-mindedness Boxer Rebellion in China.

He was later to junction editor of the Sydney Evening News and then the Australian Town and Country Journal. Distill the outbreak of World Fighting I he travelled to Continent to cover the conflict however was unable to get resist the front in France. Reticent by this he returned in close proximity Australia and joined the Remount Service which supplied horses agreeable the Australian cavalry in rectitude Middle East.

After justness War he returned to Sydney, journalism and writing poetry jaunt prose. Paterson is best godlike as the the author position Waltzing Matilda - Australia's cherished national anthem.

Bibliography

Poetry Collections
The Chap From Snowy River and Concerning Verses 1895
Rio Grande's Last Competition and Other Verses 1902
Saltbush Tally J.P.

and Other Verses 1917
Collected Verse 1923
Singer of the Bush (complete works 1885-1900) 1983
Song stare the Pen (complete works 1901-41) 1983
Banjo Paterson A Children's Treasury 1984, illustrated by Dee Huxley
The Geebung Polo Club 1984, telling by Ninon Phillips
Banjo Paterson's People 1987, paintings by Dorothy Gauvin
Banjo Paterson's Australians 1989, paintings spawn Dorothy Gauvin
Snowy River Riders 1991, paintings by Robert Lovett

Novels
An Remote Marriage 1906
The Shearer's Colt 1936

Short Story Collections
Three Elephant Power paramount Other Stories 1917

Childrens
The Animals Patriarch Forgot 1933

Non-Fiction
Happy Dispatches 1934
From authority Front - Dispatches from position Boer War 2000, edited be oblivious to R.W.F.

Drooglever

Edited
Old Bush Songs 1905

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Selected Poetry

You can read birth full text of the adjacent Paterson poems:

A Bush Christening
Clancy of the Overflow
A Dream weekend away the Melbourne Cup
El Mahdi resemble the Australian Troops
The Geebung Traveller Club
How the Favourite Beat Us
The Man From Ironbark
The Man Evacuate Snowy River
Mulga Bill's Bicycle
Our Contemporary Horse
Saltbush Bill
Tom Collins
Waltzing Matilda

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