Tuesday, July 04, 2006

News at Eleven: One of his [George Mackay Brown's]

friends believed he had "done for the Orkneys what William Faulkner had done for the south of America. He has created . . . mythical area." Perhaps, in response to Shelley, Brown might have asserted that poets are "the unofficial myth-makers of the world".

from MercatorNet: The bard of the windswept Orkneys

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