Rob
I think he would have been better if he'd never read Yeats.
Best
Dave
2008/8/26 Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>:
> Much as I admire GMB, was there anything good in his poetry -- or as good as
> what went before -- after _The Year of the Whale_, or in his novels, after
> _Greenvoe_ (before the Saint Magnus obsession became full-blowen)?
>
> Rodent
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Day" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 8:28 AM
> Subject: Re: George Mackay Brown
>
>
>> I think it was almost gone by the time GMB was writing. I don't mind
>> the Catholic propaganda - at least it impels the poetry, gives it
>> purpose, in the same way that Pound's project impels his. I can
>> accept "cold star" as poetic licence - but "outsplendours" is
>> definitely beyond the pale.
>>
>> Roger
>
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David Bircumshaw
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