Rex Fairburn
New Zealand Poet, Polemicist and Art Critic
by K R Bolton
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A R D (Rex) Fairburn was a central figure in the Golden Age of New Zealand culture. This was the period between the world wars, when an incipient nativist literary and artistic movement started to emerge that was part of the European cultural stream, but was inspired by the New Zealand landscape and the New Zealand people, and was overcoming colonial mimicking.
Fairburn was born in 1904 in modest though middle class circumstances. He was proud of being a fourth generation New Zealander related to the missionary Colenso.
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