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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
Been
Enemy
Has-Been
Helps
Mechanical
Respect
Rhyme
Spoiled
Us
Use
Which
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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
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
British
Constitution
English
Few
Like
Poetry
Pompous
Rather
Realise
Surrounded
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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
Above
Been
Contrast
Demands
Drama
Elsewhere
England
Has-Been
Interest
Modest
Movement
Our
Revival
Scotland
Sinking
Slow
Sure
Taste
Verse
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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
Art
Away
Believe
Case
English
Eventually
Express
Expressing
His
I Believe
I Believe That
Integrity
Lead
Mentality
Mr
Our
Own
Presents
Towards
Type
Us
Verse
Will
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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
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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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
Be True
Comforts
Ear
Go
Irish
Lost
Minds
Must
Our
Own
Poetry
Ready
Recognition
True
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It takes us many years to learn that the passion for justice and the welfare of all, once it has been aroused, is the deepest one in moral life.
~ Austin Clarke
Aroused
Been
Deepest
Has-Been
Justice
Learn
Life
Many
Moral
Once
Passion
Takes
Us
Welfare
Years
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Moral training in Ireland is severe and lasts until marriage. Even in childhood, we are taught by the pious clergy to battle against bad thoughts so that we may preserve our holy purity.
~ Austin Clarke
Against
Bad
Battle
Childhood
Clergy
Even
Holy
Ireland
Lasts
Marriage
May
Moral
Our
Pious
Preserve
Purity
Severe
Taught
Thoughts
Training
Until
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Passion in Ireland is denounced as evil and obscene. Women are the snares set for us by the Devil.
~ Austin Clarke
Devil
Evil
Ireland
Obscene
Passion
Set
Snare
Us
Women
Women Are
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Reform and exchange in English poetry are as slow as in the British constitution itself.
~ Austin Clarke
British
Constitution
English
Exchange
Itself
Poetry
Reform
Slow
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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
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
Brings
Century
Claim
Close
Closely
Critics
Eighteenth
Eighteenth Century
Eloquence
English
Epoch
Found
Great
Heard
Him
His
Later
Least
Lyrical
Lyrics
Music
Occasion
Regarded
Sense
Tradition
Tried
Which
Work
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Austin Clarke
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BirthDate
09 May, 1896
DeathDate
19 March, 1974
Country
Ireland
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