Reviews and Essays of Austin Clarke

by Schirmer, Gregory A.

• ISBN13: 9780861403370
• ISBN10: 0861403371
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-09-26
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Austin Clarke is widely regarded as one of 20th-century Ireland's most important poets. In this selection of nearly fifty essays and reviews written over Clarke's long career, he demonstrates that he is an astute and provocative literary critic as well. Having grown up in Dublin when the excitement of the Irish Literary Revival was still running high, Clarke knew many of the principal figures of that movement personally, and his readings of Yeats, Joyce, Synge, O'Casey, Lady Gregory, George Moore, and others enjoy the advantages of an insider's point of view. A selection of Clarke's writings on Yeats is followed by his writings on other Irish writers and the Irish Literary Revival, and on Modern English and American literature. Included as an appendix is an exhaustive list of Clarke's literary criticism published in periodicals.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Poetic Drama of Mr. Yeats. Review of Wheels and Butterflies and The Collected Plays	p. 3
Mr. Yeats and His Contemporaries. Review of Dramatis Personae	p. 6
W. B. Yeats	p. 9
Poet and Artist	p. 14
Review. The Poetry of W. B. Yeats, by Louis MacNeice	p. 17
Essay. From The Yeats We Knew	p. 19
Glimpses of W. B. Yeats	p. 30
'Stephen Dedalus': The Author of Ulysses	p. 43
The Poetry of Herbert Trench	p. 46
Synge and Ireland. Review of Synge and Anglo-Irish Literature, by Daniel Corkery	p. 51
Two Irish Poets. Review of Poems, by Padraic Colum and Seventeen Sonnets, by Monk Gibbon	p. 54
Irish Poetry To-Day	p. 56
The Abbey Theatre. Review of The Fays of the Abbey Theatre, by W. G. Fay and Catherine Carswell	p. 63
Dr. Gogarty and His Circle. Review of As I Was Going Down Sackville Street, by Oliver St. John Gogarty	p. 66
Verse-Speaking and Verse Drama	p. 69
A. E. Review of A Memoir of A. E. (George William Russell), by John Eglinton, and The Living Torch, by A. E., ed. Monk Gibbon	p. 79
A Beautiful Rebel. Review of a Servant of the Queen, by Maud Gonne MacBride	p. 82
Review. Tumbling in the Hay, by Oliver St. John Gogarty and I Knock at the Door, by Sean O'Casey	p. 84
Review. Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce	p. 88
The Dramatic Fantasies of George Fitzmaurice	p. 94
Review. The Irish Dramatic Movement, by Una Ellis-Fermor, and Litterature Irlandaise Contemporaine, by A. Rivoallan	p. 99
Review. Drums Under the Windows, by Sean O'Casey	p. 102
Poetry in Ireland To-Day	p. 105
Standish James O'Grady	p. 111
Review. Lady Gregory's Journals: 1916-1930, ed. Lennox Robinson	p. 116
John Eglinton	p. 118
Banned Books	p. 123
The Poetry of Swift	p. 126
Early Memories of F. R. Higgins	p. 144
Anglo-Irish Poetry	p. 150
A Visit with George Moore	p. 168
The Thirties	p. 173
Unconstitutional Poetry. Review of Selected Poems, by Ezra Pound, ed. T. S. Eliot	p. 181
Review. The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, by E. E. Phare	p. 183
Henry James as Critic. Review of The Art of the Novel: Critical Prefaces, by Henry James	p. 185
Six Poets in Search of Their Art. Review of Selected Poems, by Marianne Moore; A Draft of Cantos XXXI-XLI, by Ezra Pound; Life Quest, by Richard Aldington; Poems, by George Barker; 27 Poems, by Alan Pryce-Jones; and Love Poems, by W. H. Davies	p. 187
The Problem of Verse Drama To-Day	p. 191
Walt Whitman. Review of Whitman, by Edgar Lee Masters	p. 197
Review. A Key to Modern English Poetry, by Martin Gilkes	p. 199
Review. Spain, by W. H. Auden	p. 201
Review. The Still Centre, by Stephen Spender, and Autumn Journal, by Louis MacNeice	p. 203
Review. The Family Reunion, by T. S. Eliot	p. 207
Review. Gerard Manley Hopkins: Priest and Poet, by John Pick	p. 211
Review. The Letters of Ezra Pound: 1907-1941, ed. D. D. Paige	p. 213
Simple Folk: A Donegal Sketch	p. 219
The Black Church	p. 224
The Blue Monk and Other Memories	p. 229
The Room Upstairs	p. 234
Capel Street: A Chapter of Autobiography	p. 240
Notes	p. 255
Bibliography	p. 269
Index	p. 381
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