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In Answer to Various Bards (a.k.a. An Answer to Various Bards) is a poem by Australian writer and poet Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson. It was first published in The Bulletin magazine on 1 October 1892 in reply to fellow poet Henry Lawson's poem, In Answer to "Banjo", and Otherwise.

In Up The Country, Lawson had criticised " The City Bushman" such as Banjo Paterson who tended to romanticise bush life. Paterson, in turn, accused Lawson of representing bush life as nothing but doom and gloom, [1] famously ending with the line "For the bush will never suit you, and you'll never suit the bush." [2]

This exchange sparked what is known as the Bulletin Debate, mainly between Paterson and Lawson, but also including Edward Dyson and Francis Kenna.

Reception

Writing in The Advertiser, in a review of Saltbush Bill, J.P., and Other Verses, a reviewer states: "The 'note of melancholy' which Marcus Clarke and other writers have found in the bush does not appeal to him [Paterson], and he has set out his attitude in regard to the 'dismal' tribe in 'an answer to various bards,' which appears in this volume." [3]

Further publications

  • Saltbush Bill, J.P., and Other Verses by A. B. Paterson (1917)
  • The Collected Verse of A.B. Paterson (1921)
  • Singer of the Bush, A. B. (Banjo) Paterson : Complete Works 1885-1900 compiled by Rosamund Campbell and Philippa Harvie (1983)
  • The Penguin Book of Australian Satirical Verse edited by Philip Neilsen (1986)
  • A Vision Splendid : The Complete Poetry of A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson (1990)
  • The Macmillan Anthology of Australian Literature edited by Ken L. Goodwin and Alan Lawson (1990)
  • Selected Poems : A. B. Paterson edited by Les Murray (1992)
  • The Collected Verse of Banjo Paterson A. B. Paterson edited by Clement Semmler (1992)
  • Banjo Paterson : His Poetry and Prose' by Richard Hall (1993)
  • The Sting in the Wattle : Australian Satirical Verse edited by Philip Neilsen (1993)

See also

References

  1. ^ Henry Lawson: Australian Writer Archived 2011-04-08 at the Wayback Machine Australian Government Culture and Recreation Portal
  2. ^ Wikisource article - In Defence of the Bush by Banjo Paterson
  3. ^ "Recent Publications", The Advertiser, 17 March 1917, p89
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