Editing Banjo Paterson

{{short description|Australian journalist, author and poet}}
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{{Infobox person
| name             = Banjo Paterson
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|CBE|size=100%}}
| image            = Portrait of A.B. Paterson (cropped).jpg
| caption          = Banjo Paterson, circa 1890
| birth_name       = Andrew Barton Paterson
| birth_date       = {{birth date|df=yes|1864|2|17}}
| birth_place      = "Narrambla", near [[Orange, New South Wales]], Australia
| death_date       = {{death date and age|df=yes|1941|2|5|1864|2|17}}
| death_place      = [[Sydney]], New South Wales, Australia
| resting_place    = [[Northern Suburbs Crematorium, Sydney]], New South Wales, Australia
| occupation       = Author, journalist, composer, clerk, poet
| spouse           = {{marriage|Alice Emily Walker|8 April 1903}}
| children         = 2
| relatives        = [[John Paterson (Australian politician)|John Paterson]] (uncle)
| signature        = Banjo Paterson's signature.jpg
}}
'''Andrew Barton''' "'''Banjo'''" '''Paterson''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE}} (17 February 1864{{spaced ndash}}5 February 1941) was an Australian [[bush poet]], journalist and author, widely considered one of the greatest writers of Australia's colonial period.<ref name=ADB>{{cite book|title=Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson (1864–1941) by Clement Semmler|chapter=Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson (1864–1941) |publisher=Australian Dictionary of Biography|chapter-url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/paterson-andrew-barton-banjo-7972|access-date=26 September 2024|archive-date=26 September 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240926001110/https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/paterson-andrew-barton-banjo-7972|url-status=live}}</ref>

Born in rural [[New South Wales]], Paterson worked as a lawyer before transitioning into literature, where he quickly gained recognition for capturing the life of the Australian bush. A representative of the [[The Bulletin (Australian periodical)#The "Bulletin School"|Bulletin School]] of Australian literature, Paterson wrote many of his best known poems for the nationalist journal ''[[The Bulletin (Australian periodical)|The Bulletin]]'', including "[[Clancy of the Overflow]]" (1889) and "[[The Man from Snowy River (poem)|The Man from Snowy River]]" (1890). His 1895 ballad "[[Waltzing Matilda]]" is regarded widely as Australia's unofficial national anthem and, according to the [[National Film and Sound Archive]], has been recorded more than any other Australian song.<ref name = ABC0604>{{cite news|url = http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-06/outback-town-holds-first-waltzing-matilda-day/3936668|title = Outback town holds first Waltzing Matilda Day|first = Chrissy|last = Arthur|publisher = ABC News|date = 6 April 2012|access-date = 22 March 2024|archive-date = 11 April 2012|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120411062024/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-06/outback-town-holds-first-waltzing-matilda-day/3936668|url-status = live}}</ref>

==Early life==
[[File:Banjo Paterson and Fanny.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Paterson as a baby with his nanny, [[Wiradjuri]] girl Fanny Hopkins, mid-1860s]]
Andrew Barton Paterson was born on 17 February 1864 at the property "Narrambla", near [[Orange, New South Wales]], the eldest son of Andrew Bogle Paterson, a Scottish immigrant from [[Lanarkshire]], and Australian-born Rose Isabella Barton,<ref name=ADB /> related to the future first prime minister of Australia, [[Edmund Barton]].<ref name=DAB>{{cite web |url=http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks15/1500721h/0-dict-biogP-Q.html#paterson1 |title=Paterson, Andrew Barton (1864–1941) |access-date=19 January 2008 |author=Percival Serle |work=[[Dictionary of Australian Biography]] |publisher=Angus & Robertson |year=1949 |author-link=Percival Serle |archive-date=27 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190527165454/http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks15/1500721h/0-dict-biogP-Q.html#paterson1 |url-status=live }}</ref> Paterson's family lived on the isolated [[Buckinbah|Buckinbah Station]] near [[Yeoval]] NSW<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.yeoval.com.au/about-yeoval/yeoval-visitor-info/history-of-banjo-paterson.html |title=Yeoval Community Website |access-date=16 February 2014 |archive-date=15 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140215012325/http://www.yeoval.com.au/about-yeoval/yeoval-visitor-info/history-of-banjo-paterson.html |url-status=live }}</ref> until he was five when his father lost his wool clip in a flood and was forced to sell up.<ref name="DM56"/> When Paterson's uncle [[John Paterson (Australian politician)|John Paterson]] died, his family took over John Paterson's farm in Illalong, near [[Yass, New South Wales|Yass]], close to the main route between [[Melbourne]] and Sydney.  [[Bullock cart|Bullock teams]], [[Cobb and Co]] coaches and drovers were familiar sights to him. He also saw horsemen from the [[Murrumbidgee River]] area and [[Snowy Mountains]] country take part in [[Picnic horse racing|picnic races]] and [[polo]] matches, which led to his fondness of horses and inspired his writings.<ref name=ADB />

Paterson's early education came from a [[governess]], but when he was able to ride a pony, he was taught at the bush school at [[Binalong, New South Wales|Binalong]]. In 1874 Paterson was sent to [[Sydney Grammar School]], performing well both as a student and a sportsman. During this time, he lived in a cottage called Rockend, in the suburb of [[Gladesville, New South Wales|Gladesville]]. The cottage is now listed on the [[Register of the National Estate]] and [[New South Wales State Heritage Register]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=2340020 |title=New South Wales State Heritage Register: ''Rockend Cottage'' later ''Banjo Paterson Cottage Restaurant'' |access-date=26 May 2020 |archive-date=22 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201222031439/https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=2340020 |url-status=live }}</ref> He left the prestigious school at 16 after failing an examination for a scholarship to the [[University of Sydney]].<ref name=ADB />

==Career==
[[File:Former home of Banjo Paterson (Punt Road, Gladesville, Sydney).jpg|thumb|The Gladesville cottage Rockend, where Paterson lived in the 1870s and 1880s]]
Paterson was a law clerk with a Sydney-based firm headed by Herbert Salwey, and was admitted as a solicitor in 1886.<ref name=ADB /> In the years he practised as a solicitor, he also started writing. From 1885, he began submitting and having poetry published in ''[[The Bulletin (Australian periodical)|The Bulletin]]'', a literary journal with a nationalist focus. His earliest work was a poem criticising the British war in the Sudan, which also had Australian participation. Over the next decade, the influential journal provided an important platform for Paterson's work, which appeared under the pseudonym of "The Banjo", the name of his favourite horse.<ref>{{cite web|title=A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson|url=http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/paterson-a-b-banjo|website=Australian Poetry Library|access-date=22 October 2014|archive-date=24 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141024230003/http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/paterson-a-b-banjo/|url-status=live}}</ref> As one of its most popular writers through the 1890s, he formed friendships with other significant writers in Australian literature, such as [[E.J. Brady]], [[Breaker Morant|Harry "Breaker" Morant]], [[William Henry Ogilvie|Will H. Ogilvie]], and [[Henry Lawson]]. In particular, Paterson became engaged in a [[Bulletin Debate|friendly rivalry]] of verse with Lawson about the allure of bush life.<ref name=ADB />

===Journalism===
[[File:Banjo Paterson photographic portrait.jpg|thumb|upright|This portrait of Paterson is reproduced on the [[Australian ten-dollar note]].]]
Paterson became a [[war correspondent]] for ''[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]'' and ''[[The Age]]'' during the [[Second Boer War]], sailing for South Africa in October 1899. There he met fellow war correspondents [[Winston Churchill]] and [[Rudyard Kipling]] as well as British army leaders [[Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener|Kitchener]], [[Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts|Roberts]] and [[Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig|Haig]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Paterson |first1=A.B. |title=Happy Dispatches |date=1935 |publisher=Angus & Robertson |location=Sydney |pages=18–76 |edition=First}}</ref>

His graphic accounts of the [[Siege of Kimberley|relief of Kimberley]], surrender of [[Bloemfontein]] (the first correspondent to ride in) and the capture of [[Pretoria]] attracted the attention of the press in Britain.<ref name=ADB /> An untouched box of chocolates, created by the British company [[Cadbury|Cadburys]] for [[Queen Victoria]] as a 1900 New Year's gift for troops serving in South Africa, was discovered in Paterson's papers at the [[National Library of Australia]] in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|title=National Library finds 120-year-old chocolates commissioned by Queen Victoria and owned by Banjo Paterson - ABC News|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-21/old-box-of-chocolates-queen-victoria-boer-war-national-library/13001562|access-date=2020-12-20|website=amp.abc.net.au|archive-date=21 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201221064703/https://amp.abc.net.au/article/13001562|url-status=live}}</ref> He also was a correspondent during the [[Boxer Rebellion]], where he met [[George Ernest Morrison|George "Chinese" Morrison]] and later wrote about his meeting. He was editor of [[Samuel Bennett]]'s ''[[The Evening News (Sydney)|Evening News]]'' from 1903 to 1908,<ref name=ADB /> and his ''[[Australian Town and Country Journal|Town and Country Journal]]'' 1907 to 1908.<ref>''Australian Writers'', L. J. Blake, Rigby Limited, 1968</ref>

===Hiatus and military service===
In 1908 after a trip to the United Kingdom he decided to abandon journalism and writing and moved with his family to a {{convert|40000|acre|ha|adj=on|order=flip}} property near [[Yass, New South Wales|Yass]].<ref name='DM56'>{{cite news | title=Bard of the Bush | date=20 June 1956 | publisher=Truth and Sportsman Ltd | work =Daily Mirror| page =21 }}</ref>

In [[World War I]], Paterson failed to become a correspondent covering the fighting in Flanders, but did become an ambulance driver with the [[Australian Voluntary Hospital]], [[Wimereux]], France. He returned to Australia early in 1915 and, as an honorary vet, travelled on three voyages with horses to Africa, China and Egypt. He was commissioned in the 2nd Remount Unit, [[First Australian Imperial Force|Australian Imperial Force]] on 18 October 1915,<ref name=ADB /> serving initially in France where he was wounded and reported missing in July 1916 and latterly as commanding officer of the unit based in [[Cairo]], Egypt.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article234609374 |title='BANJO' WON |newspaper=[[Smith's Weekly]] |volume=XXIII |issue=2 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=8 March 1941 |access-date=17 December 2017 |page=16 |via=National Library of Australia |archive-date=22 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201222031437/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/234609374 |url-status=live }}</ref> He was repatriated to Australia and discharged from the army having risen to the rank of major in April 1919.<ref name='NAA'>{{cite web |title=Paterson, Andrew Barton Service Records Item no 4028776 |access-date=17 May 2019 |publisher=National Archives of Australia |url=https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=4028776 |archive-date=4 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404180629/https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=4028776 |url-status=live }}</ref> His wife had joined the Red Cross and worked in an ambulance unit near her husband.<ref name="DM56"/>

==Later life and death ==
[[File:John Longstaff - Banjo Paterson, 1935.jpg|thumb|upright|[[John Longstaff]]'s portrait of Banjo Paterson, winner of the 1935 [[Archibald Prize]]]]
Just as he returned to Australia, the third collection of his poetry, ''Saltbush Bill JP'', was published and he continued to publish verse, short stories and essays while continuing to write for the weekly ''[[Truth (Sydney newspaper)|Truth]]''.<ref name="DM56"/> Paterson also wrote on [[rugby league]] football in the 1920s for the ''[[Sydney Sportsman]]''.<ref>{{cite web
  | last = Headon
  | first = David
  | title = Up From the Ashes: The Phoenix of a Rugby League Literature
  | work = Football Studies Volume 2, Issue 2
  | publisher = Football Studies Group
  | date = October 1999
  | url = http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/FootballStudies/1999/FS0202i.pdf
  | access-date = 7 July 2009
  | archive-date = 21 July 2012
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120721094047/http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/FootballStudies/1999/FS0202i.pdf
  | url-status = live
  }}</ref>

In December 1938 Paterson was appointed [[Commander of the British Empire]] (CBE).<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=34585 |supp=y |page=15 |date= 30 December 1938}}</ref>

He died on 5 February 1941.<ref name=ADB />

==Personal life==
[[File:Banjo Paterson with wife Alice and daughter Grace, ca. 1900-1912, by Lionel Lindsay (6386735113).jpg|thumb|left|Paterson with his wife Alice and daughter Grace, photographed by [[Lionel Lindsay]]]]
On 8 April 1903, he married Alice Emily Walker, of Tenterfield Station, in St Stephen's Presbyterian Church, in [[Tenterfield]], [[New South Wales]].<ref>''Banjo Paterson-His Life'', Tenterfield Tourism</ref><ref>[http://www.bushverse.com/paterson/paterverse.htm ''The Verse of A.B. (Banjo) Paterson''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607203724/http://www.bushverse.com/paterson/paterverse.htm |date=7 June 2007 }} Australian Bush Poetry, Verse & Music; Accessed on 6 June 2007</ref> Their first home was in Queen Street, Woollahra. The Patersons had two children, Grace (born in 1904) and Hugh (born in 1906).

Paterson had been previously engaged to Sarah Riley for eight years, but this was abruptly called off in 1895 following a visit to her at Dagworth Station in Queensland where she was visiting the Macpherson family. It was here that Paterson met his fiancée's best friend from school days, Christina Macpherson, who composed the music for which he then wrote the lyrics of the famous [[Waltzing Matilda]]. However, following this collaboration Paterson was suddenly asked to leave the property, leading historians to conclude that he was a womanizer and had engaged in a scandalous romantic liaison with Macpherson.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Banjo and Matilda : the story of Waltzing Matilda|last=Forrest|first=Peter|date=2007|publisher=Shady Tree|others=Forrest, Sheila, 1953-|isbn=9780980351507|location=Darwin, N.T.|oclc=225318439}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Waltzing Matilda : the secret history of Australia's favourite song|first=Dennis|last=O'Keeffe|date=2012|publisher=Allen & Unwin|isbn=9781742377063|location=Crows Nest, N.S.W.|oclc=780413544}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/mistress-the-true-story-of-mistresses-and-their-men-chapter-8-the-love-triangle-behind-waltzing-matilda/news-story/a8804da5d3df91db3c2cde9f16b5eb13|title=Mistress: The true story of mistresses and their men. Chapter 8: The love triangle behind 'Waltzing Matilda'|last=Benns|first=Matthew|date=31 October 2013|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=18 April 2018|archive-date=22 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191022084703/https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/mistress-the-true-story-of-mistresses-and-their-men-chapter-8-the-love-triangle-behind-waltzing-matilda/news-story/a8804da5d3df91db3c2cde9f16b5eb13|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/matilda-a-love-song-says-book/news-story/76939b445cf9ba219eec168588fc28af?|title=Waltzing Matilda simply a love story say historians|date=23 April 2008|work=Courier Mail|access-date=18 April 2018}}</ref>

Paterson died of a heart attack in Sydney on 5 February 1941 aged 76.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17725852 |title="Banjo" Paterson dead. |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |issue=32,171 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=6 February 1941 |access-date=17 December 2017 |page=9 |via=National Library of Australia |archive-date=22 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201222031444/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17725852 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Works==
[[File:The Old Bush Songs by Banio Paterson.jpg|thumb|upright|Cover to Paterson's seminal 1905 collection of bush ballads, entitled ''[[Bush ballad|Old Bush Songs]]'']]
The publication of The Man from Snowy River and five other ballads in ''The Bulletin'' made "The Banjo" a household name.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Semmler|first1=Clement|title=Banjo Paterson: Collected Verse|date=2007|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=9780140146219|pages=4}}</ref> In 1895, Angus & Robertson published these poems as a collection of Australian verse. The book sold 5000 copies in the first four months of publication.<ref>{{cite web|title=Series 02 Volume 195: A.B. Paterson - The Man from Snowy River and other verses, ca. 1895|url=http://acmssearch.sl.nsw.gov.au/search/itemDetailPaged.cgi?itemID=421665|website=State Library of New South Wales Catalogue|publisher=State Library of New South Wales|access-date=17 September 2014|archive-date=17 September 2014|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140917061415/http://acmssearch.sl.nsw.gov.au/search/itemDetailPaged.cgi?itemID=421665|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1895, Paterson headed north to Dagworth station near [[Winton, Queensland]]. Travelling with fiancée, Sarah Riley, they met with her old school friend, [[Christina Macpherson]], who had recently attended a race at [[Warrnambool]] in Victoria. She had heard a band playing a tune there, which became stuck in her head and replayed it for Paterson on the [[autoharp]]. The melody also resonated with him and propelled him to write 
"[[Waltzing Matilda]]"<ref>{{cite book|last1=Parker|first1=Derek|title=The man who wrote Waltzing Maltilda|date=2009|publisher=Woodslane Press|isbn=9781921606076|pages=35–36}}</ref> While there has been much debate about what inspired the words, the song became one of his most widely known and sung ballads.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Semmler|first1=Clement|title=Banjo Paterson: Collected Verse|date=2007|publisher=Penguin|isbn=9780140146219|pages=5}}</ref>

In addition, he wrote the lyrics for songs with piano scores, such as "The Daylight is Dying"<ref>{{cite web|title=The daylight is dying [music]|url=http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b2519096~S2|website=State Library of New South Wales Catalogue|publisher=State Library of New South Wales|access-date=8 December 2014|archive-date=11 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141211122502/http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b2519096~S2|url-status=live}}</ref> and ''Last Week''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Last week [music]: song|url=http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b2531601~S2|website=State Library of New South Wales|access-date=8 December 2014|archive-date=11 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141211122433/http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b2531601~S2|url-status=live}}</ref> These were also published by Angus & Robertson between the years 1895 to 1899. In 1905, the same publishers released ''Old Bush Songs'', a collection of [[bush ballads]] Paterson had been assembling since 1895.<ref>{{cite web|title=A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson|url=http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/paterson-a-b-banjo|website=Australian Poetry Library|access-date=12 November 2014|archive-date=25 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025060746/http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/paterson-a-b-banjo/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Although for most of his adult life, Paterson lived and worked in Sydney, his poems mostly presented a highly romantic view of the bush and the iconic figure of the bushman. Influenced by the work of another Australian poet, [[John Farrell (Australian poet)|John Farrell]], his representation of the bushman as a tough, independent and heroic underdog became the ideal qualities underpinning the national character.<ref>{{cite web|title=A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson|url=http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/paterson-a-b-banjo|website=Australian Poetry Library|access-date=21 November 2014|archive-date=25 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025060746/http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/paterson-a-b-banjo/|url-status=live}}</ref> His work is often compared to the prose of Henry Lawson, particularly the seminal work, "The Drover's Wife", which presented a considerably less romantic view of the harshness of rural existence of the late 19th century.

Paterson authored two novels; ''In No Man's Land'' (later titled ''An Outback Marriage'') (1900) and ''The Shearer's Colt'' (1936), wrote many short stories; ''Three Elephant Power and Other Stories'' (1917), and wrote a book based on his experiences as a war reporter, ''Happy Dispatches'' (1934).  He also wrote a book for children, ''The Animals Noah Forgot'' (1933).

Contemporary recordings of many of Paterson's well known poems have been released by [[Jack Thompson (actor)|Jack Thompson]],<ref name="Jack Thompson's recordings of poems by Banjo Paterson">{{Cite web |url=http://www.finepoets.com/ |title=finepoets.com |access-date=10 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180318222844/http://finepoets.com/ |archive-date=18 March 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> who played Clancy in the 1982 [[The Man from Snowy River (1982 film)|film adaptation]] of "The Man from Snowy River". While having no connection to the movie, an Australian television series [[The Man from Snowy River (TV series)|of the same name]] was broadcast in the 1990s.

Media reports in August 2008 stated that a previously unknown poem had been found in a war diary written during the Boer War.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24196115-953,00.html | work=The Courier-Mail | title=Poet's works discovered in war diary | first=Vikki | last=Campion | date=18 August 2008 | access-date=18 August 2008 | archive-date=8 September 2012 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120908005158/http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/national-old/banjo-paterson-poem-find/story-e6freooo-1111117220084 | url-status=live }}</ref>

==Legacy==
[[File:Banjo Paterson Bridge Illalong Creek Walter Griffin Way slightly curved concrete Bridge.JPG|thumb|right|Bridge named after Banjo Paterson near Illalong]]
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Banjo Paterson's image appears on the [[Australian ten-dollar note|$10 note]], along with an illustration inspired by "The Man From Snowy River" and, as part of the copy-protection microprint, the text of the poem itself.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://banknotes.rba.gov.au/australias-banknotes/banknotes-in-circulation/ten-dollar/ |title=RBA Banknotes: $10 Banknote |website=Reserve Bank of Australia |language=en |access-date=4 February 2018 |archive-date=25 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151025164043/http://banknotes.rba.gov.au/australias-banknotes/banknotes-in-circulation/ten-dollar/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Artist [[Violet Bowring]] painted a portrait of her one-time neighbour Banjo Paterson, now hanging in Sydney’s [[Australian Club]], and used as the cover illustration of a book ''The Best of Banjo Paterson'', compiled by Walter Stone, published in 1977.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Douglas |first=Barbara |date=1980 |title=A Tribute to Violet Bowring |url=https://journals.jcu.edu.au/linq/article/view/889 |journal=Literature in North Queensland |volume=8 |issue=3: Women's Issue |pages=53–74 |issn=0817-458X |access-date=24 July 2023 |archive-date=12 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230612230522/https://journals.jcu.edu.au/linq/article/view/889 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1981 he was honoured on a postage stamp issued by [[Australia Post]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.australianstamp.com/images/large/0008990.jpg |title=Australia Post website |access-date=8 September 2012 |archive-date=4 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304010848/https://www.australianstamp.com/images/large/0008990.jpg |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[A.B. Paterson College]], at [[Arundel, Queensland|Arundel]] on the [[Gold Coast, Australia]], is named after Paterson.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.abpat.qld.edu.au/page/history |title=History |website=A.B. Paterson College |language=en |access-date=4 February 2018 |archive-date=5 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180205000720/https://www.abpat.qld.edu.au/page/history |url-status=live }}</ref>

The A. B. "Banjo" Paterson Library at [[Sydney Grammar School]] was named after Paterson.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sydgram.nsw.edu.au/college-street/current-families/students/library |title=Library |website=Sydney Grammar School |language=en |access-date=4 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180205000737/http://www.sydgram.nsw.edu.au/college-street/current-families/students/library |archive-date=5 February 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The Festival of Arts in [[Orange, New South Wales]], presents a biennial Banjo Paterson Award for poetry and one-act plays<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nGfMAgAAQBAJ&q=biennial%2520orange%2520Banjo%2520Paterson%2520Award%2520for%2520poetry&pg=PA1206 |title=Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English |last1=Benson |first1=Eugene |last2=Conolly |first2=L. W. |date=30 November 2004 |publisher=Routledge |language=en |access-date=4 February 2018 |isbn=9781134468485 |archive-date=22 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201222031437/https://books.google.com/books?id=nGfMAgAAQBAJ&q=biennial%2520orange%2520Banjo%2520Paterson%2520Award%2520for%2520poetry&pg=PA1206 |url-status=live }}</ref> and there is also an annual National Book Council Banjo Award. Orange also has an annual Banjo Paterson Poetry Festival.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.visitnsw.com/destinations/country-nsw/orange-area/orange/events/banjo-paterson-australian-poetry-festival |title=Banjo Paterson Australian Poetry Festival |website=VisitNSW.com |language=en-au |access-date=4 February 2018 |archive-date=4 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180204124135/https://www.visitnsw.com/destinations/country-nsw/orange-area/orange/events/banjo-paterson-australian-poetry-festival |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1983, a rendition of "Waltzing Matilda" by country-and-western singer Slim Dusty was the first song broadcast by astronauts to Earth.<ref>[http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/history-culture/2014/02/top-10-iconic-banjo-paterson-ballads/ Top 10 iconic Banjo Paterson Ballads] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180116230629/http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/history-culture/2014/02/top-10-iconic-banjo-paterson-ballads |date=16 January 2018 }}, Australian Geographic, 17 February 2014</ref>

He topped the list of [[The Greatest of All - Our 50 Top Australians]] published in ''[[The Australian]]'' on 27 June 2013.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/nsw/the-greatest-of-all---our-50-top-australians-ng-7f7a64b5cd9f4a765cb4fa5d3dbca0c9 |title=Our 50 greatest Australians |date=27 January 2013 |work=PerthNow |access-date=4 February 2018 |language=en-AU |archive-date=4 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180204182345/https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/nsw/the-greatest-of-all---our-50-top-australians-ng-7f7a64b5cd9f4a765cb4fa5d3dbca0c9 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Bibliography==
[[File:Yass Banjo Paterson Park 011.JPG|thumb|right|A bust of Paterson in Banjo Paterson Park, Yass, New South Wales]]

===Collections===
* ''[[The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses]]'' (1895)
* ''[[Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses]]'' (1902)
* ''[[Three Elephant Power and Other Stories]]'' (1917)
* ''[[Saltbush Bill, J.P., and Other Verses]]'' (1917)
* ''The Animals Noah Forgot'' (1933)
* ''Happy Dispatches'' (1934)
* ''The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses'' (1961)
* ''The World of 'Banjo' Paterson: His Stories, Travels, War Reports and Advice to Racegoers'', edited by [[Clement Semmler]] (1967)
* ''Banjo Paterson's Horses: The Man from Snowy River, Father Riley's Horse, Story of Mongrel Grey'' (1970)
* ''Poems of Banjo Paterson'' (1974)
* ''Poems of Banjo Paterson : Volume Two'' (1976)
* ''The Best of Banjo Paterson'' compiled by Walter Stone (1977)
* ''Happy Dispatches: Journalistic Pieces from Banjo Paterson's days as a War Correspondent'' (1980)
* ''Banjo Paterson: Short Stories'' (1980)
* ''Banjo Paterson's Old Bush Songs'' edited by Graham Seal (1983)
* ''Banjo Paterson: A Children's Treasury'' (1984)
* ''The Banjo's Best-Loved Poems: Chosen by his Grand-Daughters'' compiled Rosamund Campbell and Philippa Harvie (1985)
* ''A. B. Paterson's Off Down the Track: racing and other yarns'' compiled Rosamund Campbell and Philippa Harvie (1986)
* ''Banjo Paterson's Poems of the Bush'' (1987)
* ''Banjo Paterson's People: selected poems and prose'' (1987)
* ''A Literary Heritage: 'Banjo' Paterson'' (1988)
* ''Banjo Paterson's Australians : Selected Poems and Prose'' (1989)
* ''A Vision Splendid: The Complete Poetry of A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson'' (1990)
* ''A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson: A Book of Verse'' (1990)
* ''Snowy River Riders: selected poems'' (1991)
* ''Selected Poems: A. B. Paterson'' compiled by [[Les Murray (poet)|Les Murray]] (1992)
* ''A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson: Bush Ballads, Poems, Stories and Journalism'' edited by Clement Semmler (1992)
* ''Banjo Paterson Favourites'' (1992)
* ''Singer of the Bush: The Poems of A. B. Paterson'' (1992)
* ''Selected Verse of 'Banjo' Paterson'' (1992)
* ''Banjo Paterson: His Poetry and Prose'' compiled by Richard Hall (1993)
* ''Favourite Poems of Banjo Paterson'' (1994)
* ''In the Droving Days'' compiled by Margaret Olds (1994)
* ''Under Sunny Skies'' (1994)
* ''Banjo's Animal Tales'' (1994)
* ''The Works of 'Banjo' Paterson'' (1996)
* ''The Best of Banjo Paterson'' compiled by Bruce Elder (1996)
* ''Banjo's Tall Tales'' (1998)
* ''From the Front : Being the Observations of Mr. A.B. (Banjo) Paterson: Special War Correspondent in South Africa: November 1899 to July 1900, for the Argus, the Sydney Mail, the Sydney Morning Herald'' edited by R. W. F. Droogleever (2000)
* ''Mulga Bill's Bicycle and Other Classics'' (2005)
* ''The Bush Poems of A. B. (Banjo) Paterson'' compiled by Jack Thompson (2008)
* ''The Battlefield Poems of A.B. (Banjo) Paterson'' compiled by Jack Thompson (2010)
* ''Banjo Paterson Treasury'' illustrated by Olso Davis (2013)
* ''Looking for Clancy: Ballads by A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson'' illustrated by Robert Ingpen (2013)
* ''Banjo Paterson Treasury'' (2013)

===Novels===
* ''[[An Outback Marriage]]'' (1900) (aka ''In No Man's Land'')
* ''The Shearer's Colt'' (1936)

===Selected individual works===

====Poetry====
* "[[Clancy of the Overflow]]" (1889)
* "[[The Man from Snowy River (poem)|The Man from Snowy River]]" (1890)
* "[[In Defence of the Bush]]" (1892)
* "[[The Man from Ironbark]]" (1892)
* "[[Saltbush Bill]]" (1894)
* "[[The Travelling Post Office]]" (1894)
* "[[Waltzing Matilda]]" (1895)
* "[[Hay and Hell and Booligal]]" (1896)
* "[[Mulga Bill's Bicycle]]" (1896)
* "[[T.Y.S.O.N.]]" (1898)
* "We're All Australians Now" (1915)
* "A Bush Lawyer" (1933)

====Short Stories====
* "[[The Cast-Iron Canvasser]]" (1891)

==References==
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==Sources==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20051224072312/http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/P/PatersonAB_Banjo/notes.html Notes on Author: Andrew Barton Paterson]
*[http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/patersonab/patersonab.html Australian Authors – A. B. ("Banjo") Paterson (1864–1941)]
*[http://www.alphalink.com.au/~eureka/banjo.htm "Banjo" Paterson]

==External links==
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'''Digital collections'''
* {{StandardEbooks|Standard Ebooks URL=https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/banjo-paterson}}
* {{Gutenberg author |id=118| name=Andrew Barton Paterson}}
* {{Internet Archive author}}
* {{Internet Archive author |name=Andrew Barton Paterson |sopt=tight}}
* {{Librivox author |id=3415}}
* [http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty-n-z.html#letterP Works by A B Paterson] at [[Project Gutenberg Australia]]

'''Other links'''
* [https://www.nla.gov.au/stories/blog/papers-banjo-paterson National Library of Australia: The papers of Banjo Paterson]
** [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2338273777/findingaid NLA: Research guide to the Banjo Paterson papers]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140205071109/http://banknotes.rba.gov.au/biography-ab-banjo-paterson.html AB 'Banjo' Paterson Biographical Summary] – Reserve Bank of Australia website
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20191103011535/http://www.orange-nsw.com/banjopatterson.html Banjo Paterson Park, birthplace memorial outside Orange NSW] 
* [http://www.wallisandmatilda.com.au/banjo-paterson-biography.shtml Banjo Paterson Biography] from [[Wallis and Matilda]]
* [http://aso.gov.au/titles/music/waltzing-matilda/ Earliest recording 'Waltzing Matilda'] – added to the [[Sounds of Australia]] registry in 2008

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