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Rio Grande's Last Race
''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. The poem was one of Paterson's favourites, and its theme of a jockey's premonition of death is unusual for the poet.''The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature'', 2nd edition, p650 Plot summary Jack Macpherson, the only jockey with the ability and "hands to hold/The rushing Rio Grande", sits in the stands and retells the story of his dream. He dreamt that he was surrounded before the race by horses and riders, all dead, who told him how to ride Rio Grande that day. But the race was to end in tragedy with horse and rider both dying. Further publications * ''Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses'' by Banjo Paterson (1902) * ''Favourite Australian Poems'' edit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banjo Paterson
Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, (17 February 18645 February 1941) was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the district around Binalong, New South Wales, where he spent much of his childhood. Paterson's more notable poems include " Clancy of the Overflow" (1889), "The Man from Snowy River" (1890) and "Waltzing Matilda" (1895), regarded widely as Australia's unofficial national anthem. Early life Andrew Barton Paterson was born 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, related to the future first Prime Minister of Australia Edmund Barton. Paterson's family lived on the isolated Buckinbah Station near Yeoval NSW until he was five when his father lost his wool clip in a flood and was forced to sell up. When P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio Grande's Last Race And Other Verses
''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". The original collection includes 46 poems by the author that are reprinted from various sources. Later editions added further poems. Contents Critical reception On its original publication in Australia ''The Brisbane Courier'' noted "One may always bid welcome to the rattling poems of "Banjo" Paterson, for they have in them an irresistible swing, they are singularly grippy in descriptiveness, and they are racy of the soil. The verses in the volume now to hand are racy of more than one soil, however; they give us racing, droving, and bush incidents of Australia, and they rattle out also pen and ink pictures of South Africa, and of grim war." See also * 1902 in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1896 In Poetry
— closing lines of Rudyard Kipling's ''If—'', first published this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * July 7 – Charles Thomas Wooldridge is hanged at Reading Gaol in England for uxoricide, inspiring fellow-prisoner C.3.3. Oscar Wilde's ''The Ballad of Reading Gaol'' (1897). * William Morris publishes the Kelmscott Press edition of Chaucer's works Works published in English Australia * John Le Gay Brereton: ** ''Perdita, A Sonnet Record'' ** ''The Song of Brotherhood and Other Verses'' * Edward Dyson, ''Rhymes from the Mines and Other Lines'' * Henry Lawson: ** ''In the Days When the World was Wide and Other Verses''"Lawson, Henry (1867 - 1922)" article, ''Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1896 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1896. Events *February 11 – While Oscar Wilde is in prison, his play '' Salome'' (written in 1891) is premièred in its original French by Lugné-Poe's Théâtre de l'Œuvre company in Paris, perhaps at the Comédie-Parisienne. *March – Stephanus Jacobus du Toit's ''Die Koningin van Skeba'', the first Afrikaans language novel, begins serialization in ''Ons Klyntji''. *March 3 – Publication begins of the world's first magazine with an orientation to male homosexuality, ''Der Eigene'', by Adolf Brand in Berlin. *March 7 – Gilbert & Sullivan's last operetta ''The Grand Duke'' is premièred in London at the Savoy Theatre. *July 7 – Charles Thomas Wooldridge is hanged at Reading Gaol in England for uxoricide, inspiring fellow-prisoner C.3.3. Oscar Wilde's ''The Ballad of Reading Gaol'' ( 1897). *October 10 – ''The New York Times'' publishes its first book review section, which evolves to beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1896 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1896. Books * Guy Boothby ** ''The Beautiful White Devil'' ** ''Doctor Nikola'' * Ernest Favenc – ''The Moccasins of Silence'' * E. W. Hornung – ''The Rogue's March: A Romance'' * Fergus Hume – ''The Expedition of Captain Flick'' * Louise Mack – '' The World is Round'' * Ethel Turner – ''The Little Larrikin'' Short stories * Barbara Baynton – "The Tramp" (aka "The Chosen Vessel") * Ada Cambridge – "The Wind of Destiny" * Albert Dorrington – "A Bush Tanqueray" * Edward Dyson ** "Court Day at Billybilly" ** "The Elopement of Mrs Peters" ** "Spicer's Courtship" * Henry Lawson ** "Black Joe" ** "The Geological Spieler" ** ''While the Billy Boils'' * Louisa Lawson – "What the Frogs Said" * K. Langloh Parker – ''Australian Legendary Tales'' (edited) * A. B. Paterson – "White-When-He's-Wanted" * Steele Rudd – "Dad and the Two Donovans" * Charles Henry S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1902 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1902. Books * Louis Becke – ''Breachley, Black Sheep'' * Rolf Boldrewood – ''The Ghost Camp, or, The Avengers'' * Guy Boothby ** '' The Childerbridge Mystery'' ** ''The Curse of the Snake'' ** ''The Kidnapped President'' * Louise Mack – ''An Australian Girl in London'' * Rosa Praed – ''The Insane Root: A Romance of a Strange Country'' * Ethel Turner – ''The Raft in the Bush'' Short stories * Barbara Baynton – '' Bush Studies'' * Louis Becke — ''The Strange Adventure of James Shervinton and Other Stories'' * Henry Lawson ** "A Child in the Dark, and a Foreign Father" ** ''Children of the Bush'' ** "Send Round the Hat" * A. B. Paterson — "Sitting in Judgement : A Show Ring Sketch" Poetry * E. J. Brady – '' The Earthen Floor'' * Breaker Morant and Frank Renar – ''Bushman and Buccaneer: Harry Morant: His 'Ventures and Verses'' * Breaker Morant – " But ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Literature
Australian literature is the written or literary work produced in the area or by the people of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding colonies. During its early Western history, Australia was a collection of British colonies; as such, its recognised literary tradition begins with and is linked to the broader tradition of English literature. However, the narrative art of Australian writers has, since 1788, introduced the character of a new continent into literature—exploring such themes as Aboriginality, ''mateship'', egalitarianism, democracy, national identity, migration, Australia's unique location and geography, the complexities of urban living, and " the beauty and the terror" of life in the Australian bush. Overview Australian writers who have obtained international renown include the Nobel-winning author Patrick White, as well as authors Christina Stead, David Malouf, Peter Carey, Bradley Trevor Greive, Thomas Keneally, Colleen McCullough, Nevil Shute an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1896 Poems
Events January–March * January 2 – The Jameson Raid comes to an end, as Jameson surrenders to the Boers. * January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state. * January 5 – An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Röntgen has discovered a type of radiation (later known as X-rays). * January 6 – Cecil Rhodes is forced to resign as Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope, for his involvement in the Jameson Raid. * January 7 – American culinary expert Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook. * January 12 – H. L. Smith takes the first X-ray photograph. * January 17 – Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War: British redcoats enter the Ashanti capital, Kumasi, and Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh I is deposed. * January 18 – The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time. * January 28 – Walter Arnold, of East Peckham, Kent, England, is fined 1 shilling for speeding at (exceeding the contemporary speed limit of , the first spee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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