Ebook: Young Knowledge

Cover; Half-title; Title Page; Table of Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; SOURCES AND ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; SECTION ONE : 1925-1929; PIERRETTE; THE SECRET CHILD; MASKS 1; MAKING THE GHOST WALK; MASKS 2; SECTION TWO : 1930 -- March 1935; CHILDREN, POEMS; DAYLIGHT; DARKNESS; THE SPEAKER; HY-BRASIL; ANALYSAND; SECTION THREE : April 1935 -- December 1936; THE BALANCE; HIM I HAVE NAMED; YOUNG KNOWLEDGE; TRIBE OF JACOB; SECTION FOUR : 1937; THE HOUSE OF WOMAN; I, JEHANE; MY PEOPLE YET; THE BOOK OF NADATH; SECTION FIVE : January 1938 -- August 1939; JOURNEY FROM NEW ZEALAND; BEAUTIFUL WATCHER.;Young Knowledge presents for the first time a full chronological record of the poems of Robin Hyde, a New Zealand writer active in the 1930s whose full achievement is only now being recognised. Drawing on the 500 poems extant Michele Leggott has chosen 300 divided into five sections. Her aim is to arrive at a better understanding of the 15 years of massive production which shaped the poet and which may be her major literary work. Young Knowledge shows Robin Hyde's growth as a poet, her response to the painful events of her life and to the political and social world around her. The poems.