“BANJO” PATERSON DEAD
AUSTRALIAN POET PASSES [U.P.A.-By Electric Telegraph-Copyright] SYDNEY, sth February. The death has occurred of Mr Andrew Barton Paterson, familiarly known as “Banjo” Paterson, whose poems and ballads of Australian bush life have made his name a household word throughout the Commonwealth. He was aged 76. [A. B. (Banjo) Paterson was one of Australia’s best-known poets. The vigour of his verse and the breeziness of his language was unmistakably Australian. For years ‘The Man From Snowy River” had been a great favourite with concert reciters, and many people who do not as a rule take kindly to poetry. Others well known among his abundant output are “Rio Grande” and “The Road to Gundagai.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 6 February 1941, Page 5
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