"The title work of this collection, Memories of early years, reveals how deeply Douglas Lilburn was indebted to his boyhood at Drysdale station for his Wordsworthian love of nature. In his adult life Lilburn continued to assimilate the experience of the farm, and his composition and writing show his delight in the rhythms of the seasons. Preparation of this edition has included a critical examination of all available manuscript and printed versions of the texts, most of them never before published or collected. Included are talks, reminiscences, essays, memoirs--of Rita Angus, Evelyn Page, Charles Brasch, Alex Lindsay, Maurice Clare, John Mansfield Thomson, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Ravi Shankar--and an excerpt from Lilburn's film score Journey for Three."
"The title work of this collection, Memories of early years, reveals how deeply Douglas Lilburn was indebted to his boyhood at Drysdale station for his Wordsworthian love of nature. In his adult life Lilburn continued to assimilate the experience of the farm, and his composition and writing show his delight in the rhythms of the seasons. Preparation of this edition has included a critical examination of all available manuscript and printed versions of the texts, most of them never before published or collected. Included are talks, reminiscences, essays, memoirs--of Rita Angus, Evelyn Page, Charles Brasch, Alex Lindsay, Maurice Clare, John Mansfield Thomson, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Ravi Shankar--and an excerpt from Lilburn's film score Journey for Three."