'Discuss the Manx Identity of the voices in T E Brown's poetry'
Date(s): early 20th century
Creator(s): Corkish, Tammy
Scope & Content: English Poetry II assessed essay submitted to the University of Warwick. The author notes in her introductory remarks that Brown's Manx narratives owe more to Realist novel tradition than the Romantic poetic canon. She covers Brown's straight English poems, asserting he was not a bad English poet but was certainly not amongst the greatest, his English works showing very little technical or ideological originality. Brown's Manx dialect poetry however is given more credit and considered in depth. Yet as she concludes, 'It would seem, therefore, that Brown's wish to be the inspiration for the beginnings of a Manx literary tradition have suffered the same fate as his own poetry. Brown dedicated the 'Foc''s'le Yarns to a future Manx poet who he hoped would one day come to save the remnants of the Manx language from the 'lawlessness' of 'deep-sea English soundings' and unleash 'with Keltic force, with Keltic fire' the dialect colloquial' that Brown saw 'dying in the tholtan'. Unfortunately, the Isle of Man is still waiting for this Manx Yeats, but perhaps in the meantime it can content itself with Brown.'
Language: English
Extent: 25 pages
Physical description: typescript
Item name: essay
Collection: Manuscript Archive
Level: ITEM
ID number: MS 14158
Record class: Private
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