What were banjo Paterson's?

Answer 1

A.B. "Banjo" Paterson was passionately nationalistic, popular among many Australians in a fledgling country searching for its own identity apart from Britain. In 1890 he wrote "The Man From Snowy River", a poem which caught the heart of the nation for its sense of heroism and the way in which it put forward the concept of the "underdog" bettering all those who thought they were his superiors. This sort of writing underscored much of Paterson's work. Paterson was very much in favour of Australia being an autonomous nation, and that's why many of his heroes were from the among the "downtrodden". Unlike his contemporary Henry Lawson, Paterson presented a romanticised view of life in the bush, and many appreciated his larrikin wit more than Lawson's more realistic, drier view of life. There is little else to suggest Paterson's personal or religious beliefs. When he died, he was cremated with Presbyterian forms.