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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