Simply by Sailing in a New Direction : Allen Curnow: A Biography.
Allen Curnow (19112001) was at the time of his death regarded as one of the greatest of all poets writing in English. For seventy years, from Valley of Decision (1933) to The Bells of Saint Babel's (2001), Curnow's poetry was always on the move from his early approaches to New Zealand iden...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title page; Imprint; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; PART I; Chapter One: Family Ancestries; Chapter Two: Early Childhood, 1911â#x80;#x93;21; Chapter Three: The Lyttelton Years and Adolescence, 1921â#x80;#x93;30; Chapter Four: Student Life in Auckland, 1931â#x80;#x93;33; Chapter Five: Widening Horizons, 1934 to mid-1936; Chapter Six: Marriage, Journalism and Enemies,1936â#x80;#x93;37; Chapter Seven: A Turning Point in History: Not in Narrow Seas, 1937â#x80;#x93;38; Chapter Eight: A Changing Christchurch, Dearth of Poems, and Whim Wham, 1939â#x80;#x93;40.
- Chapter Nine: â#x80;#x98;The Shock of Another Warâ#x80;#x99;: Island and Time, 1940â#x80;#x93;41Chapter Ten: Pacific Outreach, the Mid-war Years, 1941â#x80;#x93;42; Chapter Eleven: â#x80;#x98;Landfall in Unknown Seasâ#x80;#x99;: 1942â#x80;#x93;43; Chapter Twelve: Family Expansion, Sailing or Drowning, and the Caxton Anthology, 1943â#x80;#x93;44; Chapter Thirteen: Restless Years, 1945â#x80;#x93;46; Chapter Fourteen: Last Years in Christchurch, 1947â#x80;#x93;49; PART II; Chapter Fifteen: United Kingdom, March 1949â#x80;#x93;January 1950; Chapter Sixteen: United States, Februaryâ#x80;#x93;April 1950; Chapter Seventeen: Moving to Auckland, June 1950â#x80;#x93;November 1954.
- Chapter Eighteen: A New Life and New Poems, 1955â#x80;#x93;57Chapter Nineteen: Penguin Anthology Delays, 1958â#x80;#x93;60; Chapter Twenty: More Plays, 1958â#x80;#x93;61; Chapter Twenty-one: United States, Marchâ#x80;#x93;September 1961; Chapter Twenty-two: Separation and Remarriage, September 1961â#x80;#x93;August 1965; Chapter Twenty-three: Transitions, 1965â#x80;#x93;71; PART III; Chapter Twenty-four: The Making of a Sequence: Trees, Effigies, Moving Objects, 1972; Chapter Twenty-five: New and Collected Poems, 1973; Chapter Twenty-six: Discovering Europe: Leave, 1974.
- Chapter Twenty-seven: Europe revisited, and An Incorrigible Music, 1975â#x80;#x93;78Chapter Twenty-eight: Return to New Zealand, â#x80;#x98;Moro Assassinatoâ#x80;#x99;, 1978â#x80;#x93;79; Chapter Twenty-nine: A Growing UK Reputation, You Will Know When You Get There 1980â#x80;#x93;81; Chapter Thirty: Curnow and the Theory of â#x80;#x98;Open Formâ#x80;#x99;, Apartheid, Brisbane Writersâ#x80;#x99; Week, 1981â#x80;#x93;82; Chapter Thirty-one: Menton, London and Toronto, The Loop in Lone Kauri Road, 1983â#x80;#x93;86; Chapter Thirty-two: International Recognition, Conti nuum and Selected Poems (Viking), 1986â#x80;#x93;90.
- Chapter Thirty-three: Expanding Critical Interest in Curnow, 1990â#x80;#x93;93Chapter Thirty-four: Early Days Yet, 1993â#x80;#x93;96; Chapter Thirty-five: Last Poems, The Bells of Saint Babelâ#x80;#x99;s, 1997â#x80;#x93;2001; Editor's Note; Endnotes; Allen Curnow Bibliography; Index.