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Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses (1902) is the second collection of poems by Australian poet Banjo Paterson. It was released in hardback by Angus and Robertson in 1902, and features the poems " Rio Grande's Last Race ", " Mulga Bill's Bicycle ", " Saltbush Bill's Game Cock " and " Saltbush Bill's Second Fight ".
- Andrew Barton Paterson
- 1902
- The Man from Snowy River
- Rio Grande's Last Race, and Other Verses.
- Biographical Note
AND OTHER VERSES. * "The immediate success of this book of bush ballads is without parallel in Colonial literary annals, nor can any living English or American poet boast so wide a public, always excepting Mr. Rudyard Kipling." * "These lines have the true lyrical cry in them. Eloquent and ardent verses." * "Swinging, rattling ballads of ready humo...
* "There is no mistaking the vigour of Mr. Paterson's verse; there is no difficulty in feeling the strong human interest which moves in it." * "Every way worthy of the man who ranks with the first of Australian poets." * "At once naturalistic and imaginative, and racy without being slangy, the poems have always a strong human interest of every-day ...
Andrew Barton Paterson was born at Narambla, in New South Wales, on 17 February 1864, but grew up at Buckenbah and Illalong. He became a lawyer but devoted much of his time to writing, and gained popularity especially for his poetry and ballads. His best known poems are The Man from Snowy River (1892) on which a motion picture was loosely based, an...
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- Andrew Barton Paterson
- English
- 1902
- Rio Grande's Last Race, and Other Verses
Apr 9, 2008 · Rio Grande's last race and other verses by Paterson, A. B. (Andrew Barton), 1864-1941
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Rio Grande's Last Race is a racing poem by Australian writer and poet Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson. It was first published in the London Sketch magazine on 16 December 1896. It was later published as the title poem for Paterson's second poetry collection, Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses, in 1902.
