R. A. K. Mason, 1905–1971
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https://doi.org/10.26686/knznq.v7i3.713Abstract
The story of how R. A. K. Mason threw two hundred copies of his first book, The Beggar, into Auckland harbour in the late 1920s, in disgust or despair because no one would buy it, is a legend in New Zealand literary history. It may be apocryphal, but it is compelling as myth, symbolising a time – the 1920s and 1930s – when a true, vital, native literature struggled to be read or heard in a provincial and puritanical country. The publication in 1924 of The Beggar, the poet and critic Allen Curnow was later to write, marked the emergence of New Zealand’s ‘first wholly original, unmistakably gifted poet’.
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2008-06-08
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