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  Baxter Project Background
James Phinney Baxter, visionary, historian, poet, politician and philanthropist, 6-time mayor of Portland, Maine, bequeathed a significant sum to the City of Boston upon his death in 1921, with the specific intent to honor the lives, deeds, principles and ideals of the founders of New England.
A team has assembled to bring the vision of James Phinney Baxter to bear on the evolution of the American mind today, at a time when America is at a crossroads on her path to actualizing her founding freedom documents.
James Phinney Baxter was a great advocate of education and scholarly endeavor.
www.baxterproject.org /Baxter_Project_Background.html   (836 words)

  
 James K. Baxter - Tribal Prophet: Unit Plan [English Online]
If available students are given copies of Introducing James K. Baxter by Christopher Parr and, in class, read and extract information that enhances and extends their knowledge of Baxter relating this new information to their past and future analysis of poems.
Students can listen to a tape of Baxter reading some poems they are studying and make comparisons between his reading and theirs, looking for different emphasis, pause, intonation and discussing the effect of the differences.
Finish the unit with another photograph of Baxter's coffin being taken up to the burial site behind the church at Jerusalem and students again to write words/phrases this image provokes, given their increased knowledge of the poet.
english.unitecnology.ac.nz /resources/units/jameskbaxter/home.html   (0 words)

  
  James Keir Baxter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Keir Baxter (June 29, 1926—October 22, 1972) was a New Zealand poet, and a controversial figure in New Zealand society.
Baxter was born in Dunedin to Archibald Baxter and Millicent Brown and grew up near Brighton.
He was named after James Keir Hardie, a founder of the British Labour Party.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_K._Baxter   (961 words)

  
 James K. Baxter: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
James Keir Baxter (1926 to 1972) is recognised as one of New Zealand's foremost poets.
His father, Archibald, was a pacifist who was imprisoned for his beliefs during World War I and his mother, Millicent was the daughter of a prominent Christchurch academic, J Macmillan Brown.
James K. Baxter as Critic, 1978 (by Frank McKay).
www.encyclopedian.com /ja/James-K.-Baxter.html   (301 words)

  
 James K. Baxter : Information and resources about James K. Baxter : School Work Guru
James Keir Baxter (1926 to 1972) is recognised as one of New Zealand's foremost poets.
His father, Archibald, was a pacifist who was imprisoned for his beliefs during World War I and his mother, Millicent was the daughter of a prominent Christchurch academic, J Macmillan Brown.
James K. Baxter as Critic, 1978 (by Frank McKay).
www.schoolworkguru.org /encyclopedia/j/ja/james_k__baxter.html   (342 words)

  
 BAXTER, James K.
Baxter, James K. (1926–72), poet, dramatist, literary critic, social commentator, was born in Dunedin into an Otago farming family.
James Baxter (known by friends as ‘Jim’ or, later, ‘Hemi’) once described each of his poems as ‘part of a large subconscious corpus of personal myth, like an island above the sea, but joined underwater to other islands’, and elsewhere commented that what ‘happens is either meaningless to me, or else it is mythology’.
Baxter’s later poetry becomes stripped of artifice and abstraction, until all that remains is a personal voice ‘almost ostentatiously matter of fact’ (Vincent O’Sullivan).
www.bookcouncil.org.nz /writers/baxterjk.html   (2597 words)

  
 Entrance essays on The Style of James K Baxter with reference to at least two of his poems.
The Style of James K Baxter with reference to at least two of his poems.
BAXTER'S POETRY In the poems 'Rocket Show' and 'Wild Bees' written by James K. Baxter, the style he uses is distinctive from other poets and is very memorable.
The various devices that Baxter uses for his vivid imagery are simple enough to be understood by the average reader and a few of them become very memorable in their day-to-day lives.
www.youressay.com /paper/The_Style_of_James_K_Baxter_wi-144442.html   (228 words)

  
 Best New Zealand Poems 2001
JAMES K. BAXTER was born in Dunedin in 1926 and died in Auckland in 1972.
Baxter published his first collection, Beyond the Palisade, when he was 18 and the torrent of verse was continual thereafter.
Thus the poem predicts that Baxter, like the dying thief on the cross, stripped naked and vilified before society, and with nothing to offer but belief, is ready to join his Christ in paradise.
www.vuw.ac.nz /modernletters/bnzp/2001/baxternote.html   (733 words)

  
 Search Free Essays about James K Baxter
James K Baxter was one of New Zealand most accomplished poetry writers.
James K Baxter describes his poems as ‘part of a large subconscious corpus of personal myth, like an island above the sea, but joined underwater to other islands’ James K Baxter was born in Otago to a farming family.
James K Baxter always had strong views about the world, which has come out in his poetry.
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 mike riddell, and james k baxter   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Since hearing Baxter speak at Canterbury University in 1972, Mike has been a big fan of the NZ poet James K. Baxter.
Although that was to be the year that Baxter died prematurely at the age of 46, Mike’s lifelong obsession with him has continued.
He completed a PhD on Baxter’s religious thought in 2002, has written numerous articles about him, and penned the hit play Jerusalem, Jerusalem which was based on Baxter’s last years of life.
homepages.ihug.co.nz /~mriddell/baxter.html   (140 words)

  
 Powells.com Interviews - Charles Baxter
Baxter: I was thinking about those old narrative forms: The Canterbury Tales or The Decameron, the sort of forms that Calvino was drawing upon in If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, a chorus of voices talking about similar subjects or one subject.
Baxter: This is a dumb way to answer it, but first of all it has to come from the writer; the writer has to feel it.
Baxter: If you're reading a novel by Dickens or Austen or Thomas Hardy, when a new character comes on, the character's face is going to be described and it's going to be used as an indication of what that person's character is like.
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 James K. Baxter
Millicent Baxter, James's mother, was the daughter of the eminent Canterbury College professor J. Macmillan Brown.
Baxter moved with his family to Wellington where he worked in a slaughterhouse and as a postman before entering Teacher's College.
Baxter died of a coronary thrombosis in Auckland on October 22, 1972.
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 Literary Encyclopedia: James K. Baxter
James K. Baxter was born in 1926 in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Baxter inherited from his parents a fierce moral conscience he would direct against the dominant values of white New Zealand, and a literary intelligence that relentlessly converted experience into poetry.
As a young man Baxter accumulated an enormous body of poems that were not just the lyrical effusions of adolescence but also mythologised mappings of a subjectivity fascinated by religion and sex.
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 James Keir Baxter Summary
James Keir Baxter(June 29, 1926 — October 22, 1972) was a New Zealand poet, and a controversial figure in New Zealand society.
One of the sources of Baxter's power was that when he drew on myth or literature, whether classical or Biblical, it no longer seemed an outside allusion, but became a natural source of reference, immediate and intimate….
[James K. Baxter] is, indeed, the central figure in the contemporary scene, mediator among writers of different ages and outlooks, focus of highest hopes for the future.
www.bookrags.com /James_Keir_Baxter   (324 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: )
James Keir Baxter (June 29, 1926—October 22, 1972) was a New Zealand poet, and a controversial figure in New Zealand society.
Baxter was born in Dunedin to Archibald Baxter and Millicent Brown and grew up near Brighton.
He was named after James Keir Hardie, a founder of the British Labour Party.
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 Baxter - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Baxter, James K(eir) (1926-1972), New Zealand poet and critic.
Baxter, Richard (1615-91), English Puritan writer and scholar, born in Shropshire.
He was ordained in 1638 and served as chaplain in the army of...
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 Baxter Project- home page
The Baxter Project, Inc intends to inspire the American people by infusing the history of America with the spirit of her potential.
There is a story waiting to be told.
This story of commonalities, inspiration and vision is America's origin story, presented from a perspective that will inspire all who hear it
www.baxterproject.org   (0 words)

  
 San Jose Kenpo Karate Discussion Forum
James I am all for it, good job
- james stafford on Aug 7, 2007, 12:55 PM
- james stafford on Aug 24, 2007, 9:59 PM
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