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this richness of experience is not inevitably bound up with recklessness, poets feel. Another cause of the poet's early death is certainly his fearlessness. Shelley prophesies that his daring spirit will meet death With the deaths of Rupert Brooke, Alan Seeger, Joyce Kilmer, and Francis Ledwidge, this element in the poet's disposition has been brought home to the public.
Irish poetry a part of English Literature common-sense the basis of romanticism misapprehension of the poetic temperament William Butler Yeats his education his devotion to art his theories his love poetry resemblance to Maeterlinck the lyrical element paramount the psaltery pure rather than applied poetry John M. Synge his mentality his versatility a terrible personality his capacity for hatred his subjectivity his interesting Preface brooding on death A. E. The Master of the island his sincerity and influence disembodied spirits his mysticism homesickness true optimism James Stephens poet and novelist realism and fantasy Padraic Colum Francis Ledwidge Susan Mitchell Thomas MacDonagh Joseph Campbell Seumas O'Sullivan Herbert Trench Maurice Francis Egan Norreys Jephson O'Conor F. Carlin The advance in Ireland.
Lord Dunsany brought to public attention a new poet, Francis Ledwidge, whose one volume, Songs of the Fields, is full of promise. In October, 1914, he enlisted in Kitchener's first army, and was killed on the thirty-first of August, 1917. Ledwidge's poetry is more conventional than that of most of his Irish contemporaries, and he is at his best in describing natural objects.
There was Byron, who left all his lady-loves, to fight against the Turk, And David, the singing king of the Jews, who was born with a sword in his hand. It was only yesterday, indeed, that Rupert Brooke, Francis Ledwidge, Alan Seeger and Joyce Kilmer made the memory of the soldier poet lasting.
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