T. E. Brown — a remark

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“I grow old naturally, comfortably, easily, and with assent and consent. It is the strugglers, the rebels, the miserables who can do nothing generously, that spoil themselves.”

Embracing age with equanimity rather than resistance · Letter to A. M. Worthington, 1895

About T. E. Brown

T. E. Brown

5 May 1830–29 October 1897

In the pantheon of Victorian literature, Thomas Edward Brown occupies a unique position—a poet who straddled two worlds with remarkable grace and authenticity. Born on the Isle of Man in 1830 and dying there in 1897, Brown spent his life navigating between the intimate, Celtic traditions of his homeland and the…

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