«Keeping the Sources Pure»: The Making of George Mackay Brown

This volume assesses the literary stature of George Mackay Brown by contextualising his prose and his poetry within twentieth-century British and European literary practices and traditions of thought. Challenging the typecasting of Brown as ‘Orkney writer’, the book links him with European Modernism and reveals the complex web of experiences, influences and relationships that shaped Brown’s poetic development.
This comparative study argues that Edwin Muir, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Thomas M...