Austin Clarke (poet)
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Austin Clarke (poet)
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Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, 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 techniqu
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Irish poet (1896–1974)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Clarke_(poet)
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2003-11-13T11:30:59Z
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2024-09-03T12:58:40Z
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