 It has been said that the poetry of Robert Rendall "represents the eventual regenerative reaction to the transplanted, anglicised expression which had prevented Orkney from producing any significant or lasting poetry during the nineteenth century ...The work represents
a cultured fusion of Orcadian vernacular, philosophical Christian content and refined
form".George Mackay Brown's view was that the poetic work of Rendall was patchy, but when good it was very good indeed.