T. E. Brown — a remark

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“I have a great notion of being the master of my own happiness, and not suffering it to be contingent on the manners and conduct of other people.”

Asserting personal responsibility for one's own serenity · Letter, 1885

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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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