Christensen, Allan, et al, eds. The Challenge of Keats: Bicentenary Essays 1795–1995. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000.

See Valentina Poggi, "John Keats in the Orkneys," pp. 186–193 – a comparison of GMB's story "Brig o'Dread" and several passages in Keats. "George Mackay Brown's poems and stories offer no idyllic pictures of village life, no complacent extolling of the past over the present, above all no ready-made message of either hope of [or?] pessimism" (p. 193).