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About Austin Clarke
Austin Clarke - Poet
Austin Clarke (9 May 1896 – 19 March 1974) 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."
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Austin Clarke's Timeline
| 1896 |
May 9, 1896
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Dublin, Dublin City, Dublin, Ireland
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| 1974 |
March 19, 1974
Age 77
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Dublin, Dublin City, Dublin, Ireland
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