Cirrus@Austlit

'This article considers how three of [Brennan's] disciples, A.R. Chisholm, Randolph Hughes and Carl Kaeppel worked to keep alive their visions of Brennan both as a great man and as literary figure of considerable importance. In so doing they created a larger than life cultural icon. Despite their agreement on Brennan's greatness they could not agree on what constituted his major contribution to culture. Hughes saw him as a great symbolist poet, Kaeppel viewed him as a representative of the classical and Catholic tradition while Chisholm considered him to be a "moody Celt" who had been driven to search for "Eden" as a consequence of the loss of his Catholic faith' (103).