Brown T E with Introduction by W E Henley (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Macmillan, 1901. Second printing in fine, 3/4 morocco, signed binding. In outstanding condition. Dates (1830-1897) penned onto title page, else no former owner marks. Thomas Edward Brown (5 May 1830 ? 29 October 1897), commonly referred to as T. E. Brown, was a late-Victorian scholar, schoolmaster, poet, and theologian from the Isle of Man. Brown served first as headmaster of The Crypt School, Gloucester, then as a young master at the fledgling Clifton College, near Bristol (influencing, among others, poet W. E. Henley at The Crypt School. Writing throughout his teaching career, Brown developed a poetry corpus?with Fo'c's'le Yarns (1881), The Doctor (1887), The Manx Witch (1889), and Old John (1893)?of narrative poetry in Anglo-Manx, the historic dialect of English spoken on the Isle of Man that incorporates elements of Manx Gaelic. It was Brown's role in creating the verse, with scholarly use of language shaping a distinct regional poetic form?featuring a fervour of patriotism and audacious and naturally pious philosophy of life unique to the islands - the earned him the title of "Manx national poet".…