Some discolouration to cover.

As poet, editor, and patron of the arts, Charles Brasch made a lasting contribution to New Zealand cultural life. In retrospect he seemed born to the sheltered life of artist and aesthete; in fact it took nearly forty years of trial and error, of intense self-scrutiny and continuing private quest, for Brasch to discover and justify his vocation. These early years, up to the quarterly 'Landfall' in 1947, are the subject of this memoir.