Research Catalog

Title

Charles Brasch : journals, 1945-1957 / selected with an introduction and notes by Peter Simpson.

Author

Brasch, Charles

Publication

• Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, 2017.
• ©2017

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Simpson, Peter, 1942-
• University of Otago. Hocken Collections.

Description

686 pages : portraits, genealogical table; 22 cm

Summary

"This second of three volumes of Charles Brasch's journals covers 1945 to 1957, beginning with his return to New Zealand after World War II to establish a literary quarterly. The journals cover the discussions that preceded Landfall and the first decade of his distinguished editorship, a role that brought Brasch into contact with New Zealand's leading artists and intelligentsia. His frank and often detailed descriptions of these people - including Frank Sargeson, A.R.D. Fairburn, Keith Sinclair, Eric McCormick, James Bertram, John Beaglehole, Fred and Evelyn Page, Alistair Campbell, Toss and Edith Woollaston, Denis Glover, Allen Curnow, Leo Bensemann, Ngaio Marsh, Colin McCahon, James K. Baxter, Janet Frame, Ruth Dallas and many others - are among the highlights of the book. Unmarried and longing for intimacy, Brasch also writes with great candour about his relationships with Rose Archdall, Rodney Kennedy and Harry Scott, revealing a side of himself that has not been known about before. Central to Brasch's life was the vocation of poetry. He writes revealingly about his own work, and also about his love of nature and the outdoors. The book ends with his visit to Europe in 1957, which confirmed his sense that New Zealand had become for him 'a centre & a world'."--Back cover.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Alternative Title

• Works.
• Journals, 1945-1957

Subject

• Brasch, Charles > Diaries
• Landfall
• 1900-1999
• Poets, New Zealand > 20th century > Diaries

Genre/Form

• diaries.
• Diaries
• Journaux intimes.

Note

• Published in association with the Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena, University of Otago.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: pages 650-653.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Chronology -- Family tree -- Introduction: "Making New Zealand a centre & a world": Charles Brasch 1945-1957 / Peter Simpson -- The journals: 1945 journal -- 1946 journal -- 1947 journal -- 1948 journal -- 1949 journal -- 1950 journal -- 1951 journal -- 1952 journal -- 1953 journal -- 1954 journal -- 1955 journal -- 1956 journal -- 1957 journal -- Dramatis personae.

ISBN

• 9781927322284
• 1927322286

OCLC

987590443

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library