Austin Clarke (poet) Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Austin Clarke (poet) Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Austin Clarke (Irish: Aibhistín Ã" Cléirigh[1]) (9 May 1896 â€" 19

March 1974), born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of

the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also

wrote plays, novels and memoirs. Clarke's main contribution to Irish

poetry was the rigour with which he used technical means borrowed from

classical Irish language poetry when writing in English.Effectively,

this meant writing English verse based not so much on metre as on

complex patterns of assonance, consonance, and half rhyme. Describing

his technique to Robert Frost, Clarke said "I load myself down with

chains and try to wriggle free."Clarke's early poetry clearly shows

the influence of Yeats. His first book, The Vengeance of Fionn, was a

long narrative poem retelling an Ossianic legend. It met with critical

acclaim and, unusually for a first book of poetry, went to a second

edition. Between this and the 1938 volume Night and Morning, Clarke

published a number of collections, all of which, to one extent or

another, can be seen as being written in the shadow of Yeats. There

was, however, one significant difference; unlike the older poet,

Clarke was a Catholic, and themes of guilt and repentance run through

this early work.
Austin Clarke (poet) Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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