A Bushman's Song

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"A Bushman's Song"
by A. B. Paterson
Original titleTravelling Down the Castlereagh
Written1892
First published in The Bulletin
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Publication date24 December 1892
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"A Bushman's Song" (1892) is a poem by Australian poet A. B. Paterson. [1]

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It was originally published in The Bulletin on 24 December 1892, with the title "Travelling Down the Castlereagh", and subsequently reprinted in a collection of the author's poems, other newspapers and periodicals and a number of Australian poetry anthologies. [1]

Critical reception

While reviewing the poet's collection The Man From Snowy Rover and Other Verses a reviewer in The Sydney Morning Herald noted: "In poems such as 'The Travelling Post-office,' 'Clancy of the Overflow,' 'On Kiley's Run,' 'Black Swans,' 'In the Droving Days,' 'A Bushman's Song,' 'The 'Wind's Message,' 'The Daylight is Dying,' and a few others, one finds the authentic transcript of the moods of inland Australia, the life of her people, and sometimes in their own words." [2]

The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature states: "In 'A Bushman's Song' [Paterson] is the radical, putting the case for the ordinary drover and shearer against the squatter and the absentee landlord." [3]

Publication history

After the poem's initial publication in The Bulletin it was reprinted as follows:

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References

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  2. ↑ ""Current Literature"". The Sydney Morning Herald, 19 October 1895, p4. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  3. ↑ The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature edited by Wilde, Hooton and Andrews, 2nd edition, p550
  4. ↑ "Austlit — The Collected Verse of A. B. Paterson, 1921". Austlit. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  5. ↑ "New Song in an Old Land (Longmans, Green)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  6. ↑ "Spoils of Time : Some Poems of the English Speaking Peoples (Georgian House)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  7. ↑ "The Boomerang Book of Australian Poetry (Longmans, Green)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  8. ↑ "Favourite Australian Poems (Rigby)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  9. ↑ "The Penguin Australian Song Book (Penguin Books)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  10. ↑ "From the Ballads to Brennan (A&R)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  11. ↑ "Folk Songs of Australia and the Men and Women Who Sang Them (Ure Smith)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  12. ↑ "The Overlander Songbook (publisher)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  13. ↑ "Australian Verse from 1805 : A Continuum (Rigby)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  14. ↑ "Singer of the Bush, A. B. (Banjo) Paterson : Complete Works 1885-1900 (Lansdowne)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  15. ↑ "Duke of the Outback : The Adventures of "A Shearer Named Tritton" (publisher)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  16. ↑ "The Bushwackers Australian Song Book (Sphere)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  17. ↑ "A Treasury of Bush Verse (A&R)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  18. ↑ "Selected Poems : A. B. Paterson (A&R)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  19. ↑ "A. B. (Banjo) Paterson : Bush Ballads, Poems, Stories and Journalism (UQP)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  20. ↑ "The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads (Penguin)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  21. ↑ "Banjo Paterson : His Poetry and Prose (Allen & Unwin)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  22. ↑ "The Collected Verse of Banjo Paterson (Viking O'Neill)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
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