''Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses'' (1902) is the second collection of
poems
Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in ...
by Australian poet
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 ...
. It was released in
hardback
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by
Angus and Robertson in 1902, and features the poems "
Rio Grande's Last Race", "
Mulga Bill's Bicycle
"Mulga Bill's Bicycle" is a poem written in 1896 by Banjo Paterson. It was originally published on the 25th of July 1896 edition of the ''Sydney Mail'', and later appeared in the poet's second poetry collection ''Rio Grande's Last Race and Other ...
", "
Saltbush Bill's Game Cock" and "
Saltbush Bill's Second Fight
''Saltbush Bill's Second Fight'' is a humorous poem by Australian writer and poet Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson. It was first published in ''The Antipodean'' in 1897.
Saltbush Bill was one of Paterson's best known characters who appeared in 5 ...
".
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."
"Reviews : Rio Grande's Last Race : Mr A. B. Paterson's New Book", ''The Brisbane Courier'', 27 December 1902, p13
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See also
* 1902 in Australian literature
* 1902 in poetry
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