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When I first discovered for myself the Celtic Twilight and read the earlier poems of Yeats and others, all was entirely incomprehensible to me. I groped through a mist of blurred meanings, stumbled through lines in which every accent seemed to be in the wrong place.

~Austin Clarke

Topics: Accent Blurred Celtic Discovered Earlier Entirely Every First Incomprehensible Lines Me Meanings Mist Myself Others Place Poems Read Seemed Stumbled Through Twilight Which Wrong Wrong Place

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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

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

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In expressing so completely his own type, Mr. Yeats presents us with the case for integrity. If we can express eventually our own scholastic mentality in verse, I believe that our art will lead us not towards, but away from, English art.

~Austin Clarke

Topics: Art Away Believe Case English Eventually Express Expressing His Integrity Lead Mentality Our Own Presents Towards Type Us Verse Will Mr I Believe I Believe That

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Assonance is not the enemy of rhyme. It helps us to respect rhyme, which has been spoiled by mechanical use.

~Austin Clarke

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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

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

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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

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

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Few realise that English poetry is rather like the British constitution, surrounded by pompous precedents and reverences.

~Austin Clarke

Topics: British Constitution English Few Like Poetry Pompous Rather Realise Surrounded

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

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Irish poetry has lost the ready ear and the comforts of recognition. But we must go on. We must be true to our own minds.

~Austin Clarke

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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

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

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Poet

Born: May 9th, 1896

Died: March 19th, 1974

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