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| Name: |
George Mackay Brown | | Birth Date: |
October 17, 1921 | | Death Date: |
April 13, 1996 | | Nationality: |
English | | Gender: |
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 Biography of George Mackay Brown
6,659 words, approx. 22 pages
 George Mackay Brown is not only a poet but also an acknowledged novelist and a sensitive writer of short stories and plays. His successes in poetry and the prose narrative are considerable, and the really surprising thing about him is not so much his... summary from source:
Biography of George Mackay Brown
6,557 words, approx. 22 pages
Now past seventy, George Mackay Brown is unique among modern British writers in the scope, nature, and integrity of his achievements. A major part of his distinctiveness lies in the way he has created an entire oeuvre centered on a sparsely populated... summary from source:
Biography of George Mackay Brown
5,912 words, approx. 20 pages
To say that Orkney was important to George Mackay Brown's art is to understate massively. For Brown, Orkney was the source of his art. Its presence is all-pervasive in his poetry and in his prose works. Its history and myth provide Brown with the bulk...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 George Mackay Brown Information
607 words, approx. 2 pages
 George Mackay Brown (17 October 1921 - 13 April 1996), was a Scottish poet, author and dramatist, whose work has a distinctly Orcadian character. Born in Stromness in the Orkney Islands, Mackay Brown is considered one of the great Scottish poets of the...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Joseph J. Feeney
1,460 words, approx. 5 pages
In the following tribute, Feeney explores Brown's career, noting Seamus Heaney's remark that Brown could "transform everything by passing it through the eye of the needle of Orkney."
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Critical Review by Christopher Andreae
1,028 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following review, Andreae considers Brown's posthumously published Following a Lark and Orkney: Pictures and Poems.
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Critical Review by Richard Henry
830 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following review, Henry describes Brown's chronicling of island life in Beside the Ocean of Time.
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