Gregory: Thanks so much for replying to the little topic that couldn't! I knew in posting it that Brown wasn't likely to set the world alight with his combination of piety, sentiment, and pomposity. But what the hell, right? I hoped folks wouldn't mind looking at a short one from a poet who may be worth knowing about
As to the dialect stuff, well, it is interesting for those few interested in the history of the IOM, but those poems tend to be too long for posting here, indeed too long for almost all readers.
It's interesting to me that poets like Brown can be so celebrated locally (you should see the Brown room of the Manx museum!) but totally forgotten everywhere else. I can imagine the phenomenon of the "local poet laureate" might be a worthy GT topic--as might the value of "dialect poetry" in general...
Thanks for catching my stupid typo. I have erased the erroneous 90 years from Brown's life.
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