Enduring legacy : Charles Brasch, patron, poet & collector / edited by Donald Kerr. - 175 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm

Published at the end of the thirty-year embargo placed by Brasch on his personal papers at the Hocken Library, Dunedin. "Donald Kerr is Special Collections Librarian at the University of Otago and curated the exhibition 'Harmonizing my starting place: Charles Brasch, poet, patron and collector' (2003)"--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references (page 169) and index.

Introduction -- The Legacy -- Charles Brasch: Man of letters -- Charles Brasch: Collector and patron -- Colour plates -- A Matter of Taste: Charles Brasch as art collector -- Thirty Years as Literary Executor -- The Man & Citizen -- Towards a Biography -- Charles Brasch and Dunedin -- The Poet -- Charles Brasch and the 'Land and People' Theme -- Keys to the Locked Soul -- The Editor -- 'A citizen of the English Language': Charles Brasch in his times -- Charles Brasch's Landfall: A second life -- Recollections -- Remembering Charles -- Brasch at the Door -- On Brasch -- 'I stalk the streets of the midnight city' -- Charles Brasch: A Memoir -- A Headland of Praise -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Brasch, Charles

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