When Memory Speaks

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>With its intentional pun on the title of Nabokov's autobiography </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Speak Memory</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> and obvious indebtedness to Wordsworth's</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Prelude </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Timothy Brownlow pushes his little bark into the treacherous tides of memory evoking the lost paradise of his Irish childhood and youth the various falls from grace of nationality family and self the experience of disillusionment exile and self-laceration followed by a happy marriage and the gradual restoration of faith in life love and the enduring power of once-loved places. This re-integration of the psyche is mediated throughout by the author's reverence for the art of poetry which has maintained his stability through spiritual heights and depths. By coming to terms with deep rifts in his inheritance Brownlow asserts what Wordsworth calls the growth of the poet's mind.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>ABOUT THE AUTHOR</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Timothy Brownlow Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Vancouver Island University graduated in Modern Languages from Trinity College Dublin co-edited </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Dublin Magazine </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>for six years and later completed a doctorate in English at York University Toronto with two years doing research at Pembroke College Oxford. His book </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>John Clare and Picturesque Landscape</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> (1983) was published by the Clarendon Press; Studies in English Literature called it the best study of Clare yet written. Other works include a poetry collection </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Climbing Croagh Patrick </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>(1998) and a collection of essays </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Hiding Places</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> (2008). Brownlow and his wife live in Duncan B.C.</span></p>