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Austin Clarke

Irish Poet

Born: May 9, 1896

Died: Mar 19, 1974

Been English Few Own Slow Will

Related authors: Eavan Boland Oliver Goldsmith Patrick Kavanagh Seamus Heaney Thomas Moore William Allingham William Butler Yeats

Yeats regarded his work as the close of an epoch, and the least of his later lyrics brings the sense of a great occasion. English critics have tried to claim him for their tradition, but, heard closely, his later music has that tremulous lyrical undertone which can be found in the Anglo-Irish eloquence of the eighteenth century. Austin Clarke

Work Music Great Sense Eloquence Lyrical Lyrics Later Claim Tried Critics Occasion Him Least Tradition His Heard Yeats Close Closely Eighteenth Eighteenth Century Regarded Which Century Epoch English Found Brings

In these days of our new materialistic Irish state, poetry will have a harder, less picturesque task. But the loss of Yeats and all that boundless activity, in a country where the mind is feared and avoided, leaves a silence which it is painful to contemplate. Austin Clarke

Silence Mind Will Country State Our Feared Poetry Boundless New Contemplate Days Picturesque Leaves Materialistic Loss Yeats Irish Task Where Which Painful Less Avoided Activity Harder

Few in the Nineties would have ventured to prophesy that the remote dim singer of the Celtic Twilight would, in a new age, become the leading poet of the English-speaking world. None have disputed the claim of William Butler Yeats to that title. Austin Clarke

Age World Poet Become Few Nineties Dim Claim William Would Prophesy Leading New New Age Remote Singer None Yeats Celtic Title English-Speaking Butler Twilight Disputed

Reform and exchange in English poetry are as slow as in the British constitution itself. Austin Clarke

Constitution Slow Poetry Exchange Itself Reform English British

In contrast to our sinking taste, there has been a revival of interest in verse drama in England, Scotland, and elsewhere. The movement has been slow but sure and, above all, modest in its demands. Austin Clarke

Slow Sinking Drama Elsewhere Our Has-Been Above Demands Sure Been Verse Scotland Revival Contrast Taste Movement Interest Modest England

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