Austin Clarke's first book of poetry was published in 1917, his last in 1971. In a writing life spanning much of the twentieth century, Clarke created from his early, Yeatsian immersion in Gaelic myth and literature a poetry of passionate, idiosyncratic modernity, rooted in place and time, universal in its resonance. His is poetry, writes Christopher Ricks, of 'delicate and dancing interlacings' which is also 'simple as join-hands'.Clarke can be challengingly elliptical or as robust and earthy as folk tradition; he dares the terrors of the damaged soul. His later poems "Thomas Kinsella" described in "The Dual Tradition" as 'wickedly glittering narratives...poetry as pure entertainment, serious and successful'. The first "Collected Poems of Austin Clarke" appeared shortly after his death in 1974. Now, newly edited and corrected, with Clarke's original Notes restored, a bibliography and an illuminating introduction by Christopher Ricks, the poetry takes its place as one of the most compelling bodies of twentieth-century Irish poetry, available for a new generation of readers.
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Austin Clarke (1896-1974), playwright and leading Irish poet of the generation after Yeats, was educated at University College Dublin. He worked in England as a journalist, returning to Dublin in 1937. The Vengeance of Fionn, the first of eighteen books of verse, appeared in 1917; his Collected Poems in the year of his death. He promoted verse drama through the Dublin Verse-Speaking Society which he formed in 1941. His first novel, The Bright Temptation (1932), was banned in Ireland until 1954.
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This is a brand new anthology of Clarks word and mightly over due. His poetry is majesterial and raw, a vivid portrait of Ireland in early 20th century. What I like most about Clarkes work is the pacing and language, its rhthym and balance. He is truly one of the great poets of our age. His poems linger on in the memory long after one has read them, They demand time and thought to decipher and understand. The language is is its own pleasure, they are also cerebreal and colourful. I dare any one to read the straying student and not be taken to places one did not even existed.
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