World Literature Today, July 1st, 2003
Paul Millar, ed. & intro. Wellington, New Zealand. Victoria University Press (Paul & Company, distr.) 2002. 567 pages + 8 plates. $32.95. ISBN 0-86473-400-X
THE BEST-KNOWN of New Zealand poets, James Keir Baxter, died in 1972 at the age of forty-six. His farming father, Archie Baxter, of Highland-Welsh descent, had been his country's most famous conscientious objector during World War I. His mother was Millicent, daughter of the professor of English and classics at Canterbury University. The marriage was not viewed favorably by her parents.
During World War II, James's pacifist elder broth...
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