Douglas Stewart

Springtime in Taranaki: An Autobiography of Youth

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'Who would want to live in a country town?' asks the poet Elizabeth Riddell, who, like myself, left New Zealand for Sydney in youth...Well, I for one would. Of course you have to leave it when you reach your twenties and you are restless or energetic or ambitious...

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-74331-234-6
EAN: 9781743312346
Produktnummer: 15435969
Verlag: Allen & Unwin (Australia)
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 256 S.

Über den Autor

Poet, dramatist, short-story writer and critic, Douglas Stewart was a highly influential literary figure. Born in New Zealand in 1913, he came to Australia in 1938 and was for twenty-one years literary editor of the Bulletin before he joined Angus & Robertson where he worked for twelve years as an editorial adviser. He is remembered both for his finely observed nature poetry and his verse dramas, including his most significant work The Fire on the Snow concerning Scott's ill-fated Antarctic expedition and which was written during his second year in Sydney. He also published a number of books of prose including a collection of short stories A Girl with Red Hair and other Stories (1944) and the non-fiction works The Seven Rivers (1966), Norman Lindsay: A personal memoir (1975), A Man of Sydney (1977) and Springtime in Taranaki (1983). Written in 1984, the year before he died, his last book Douglas Stewart's Garden of Friends about the garden he created with his wife artist Margaret Coen was published in 1987.