The Man From Snowy River and Other Verses by A. B. "Banjo" Paterson

This popular selection of A.B. ("Banjo") Paterson's verses includes bush ballads, narrative poems and humorous verse - as fresh today and as widely read as they were on their first appearance in the nineties.

"Patterson more than any other balladist, more indeed than any other Australian writer of verse, conveys to us the atmosphere of the Australian countryside and its inhabitants . . . There will always be a 'Man from Snowy River', even if he no longer races his horse downhill among the flying flint-stones; and there will always, as far as one can look ahead, be the wheat country, in which 
When the burning harvest sun sinks low
And shadows stretch on the plain,
The roaring strippers come and go
Like ships on a sea of grain;

there will always be picnic and other outback races, even if the racers ride metal instead of horseflesh; and amateur riders, and queer decisions, and the contrast between country and city . . . and driving in one form or another and cattle-duffing and the roving and independent bushman and the lonely camp-fire. All these aspects and instances of the bush and its life Paterson has caught and fixed for us."
H. M. Green, A HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE

Genres: Poetry - Australia - Classics - Westerns - Collections
Condition: Good
Published: First published in 1961. This edition published in 1988 by Angus & Robertson
Pages: 250
ISBN: 0207155259 
Weight: 255g