Austin Clarke (poet)

Austin Clarke ( Irish: Aibhistín ÓCleirigh; born May 9, 1896 in Dublin, † 19 March 1974) was an Irish playwright and writer who is one next to Patrick Kavanagh and Louis MacNeice among the most important Irish poets of the generation after William Butler Yeats.

Life

After attending the Jesuit school Belvedere College, he studied at University College Dublin and was during this time his literary debut in 1917 with the poetry collection The Vengeance of Fionn, the first of a total of 18 collections of poetry. At the beginning stood his epic- lyric poems under the influence of William Butler Yeats and his enthusiasm for the Irish- Gaelic mythology, before he was a highly accomplished poet was in the course of time, satirical, but also critically on the Irish spirit.

Between 1922 and 1937 he worked as a literary critic and journalist in England. There he wrote his first novel in 1932 The Bright Temptation, which until 1954 in Ireland was not allowed to appear. At the same time he was in 1932 one of the founders and later president of the Irish Academy of Letters.

On his return to Dublin in 1937, he was also a noted playwright and supporters of the verse drama, which he promoted through the establishment of the Dublin Verse -Speaking Society in 1941. His stage works are strongly influenced Irish legends and published in 1963 as a collective work.

Besides the two autobiographical works Twice Round the Black Church (1962 ) and A Penny in the Clouds (1968 ) his collected poems were published in 1974 under the title Collected Poems.

His other publications include Poetry in Modern Ireland ( 1951), Later Poems (1961 ), Flight to Africa: And other poems (1963 ), The Son of Learning: A Comedy in Three Acts (1964 ), Mnemosyne lay in dust (1966 ), ECHO AT COOL & OTHER POEMS (1968 ), A PENNY IN THE CLOUDS: MORE MEMORIES OF IRELAND aND ENGLAND (1968 ) and The Impuritans (1973).

Background literature

  • DJ: Patrick Kavanagh and Austin Clarke: A Student's Guide to Their Work, 1974
  • Susan Halpern: Austin Clarke, his life and works, 1977

External links and sources

  • Literature by and about Austin Clarke in the catalog that German national library
  • Biography ( poetryarchive.org )
  • CHAMBER 'S BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2, p 327
  • Author
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Literature ( English )
  • Drama
  • Poetry
  • Irishman
  • Born 1896
  • Died in 1974
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