Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
Ellen Glasgow
E. E. Cummings
Mother Teresa
Maya Angelou
Roy Bean
Socrates
All authors
Today's birthdays
1831 - Amelia Barr
1918 - Sam Walton
1992 - Chris Massoglia
1936 - Richard Rodney Bennett
1931 - Norman Tebbit
1994 - Sulli
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
Author
Chef
President
Actor
Aviator
Saint
All professions
Authors by letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All authors
Topics
Top Quotes
Quotesia
Favorite authors
Austin Clarke Quotes
Austin Clarke Quotes
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
No more Austin Clarke quotes
Haven't find the right quote? Try quotes from authors related to Austin Clarke.
Eavan Boland
Oliver Goldsmith
Patrick Kavanagh
Seamus Heaney