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Originally published in 1930, this book contains recollections from the friends of the Manx poet and theologian Thomas Edward Brown on the occasion of the centenary of his birth. The volume includes a preface from the then Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man, Sir Claude Hill, as well as some unpublished letters written by Browne and a brief biography written by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Manx literature and the history of Manx thought.
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Excerpt from Thomas Edward Brown, the Manx Poet: An Appreciation A full and final appreciation of T. E. Brown as a poet has, in my judgment, still to be written; but I cordially welcome the essay of my young friend, to which he has asked me to prefix a few words of introduction. His essay is genuine and dis cerning, and I welcome it all the more because he had not, as I had, the immense privilege and pleasure of knowing Brown personally. He belongs to a later generation; he therefore in some degree anticipates the judgment of posterity. Brown's contemporaries have inadequately, as it seems to me, recognized his claims to be among the fixed stars of literature, and Mr. Selwyn Simpson's essay ...