About
Irish poet and author best known for incorporating Gaelic poetic devices into English-language poetry. His poetic works include Ancient Lights, Tiresias, and Mnemosyne Lay in Dust.
Before Fame
He was born in Dublin, Ireland and studied at University College, Dublin.
Trivia
He co-founded the Lyric Theatre Company, for which he wrote several verse plays.
Family Life
He suffered a major emotional breakdown only days after marrying his first wife, Cornelia Cummins. After Cummins' death, Clarke happily remarried Norah Esmerelda Patricia Walker, with whom he had three children.
Associated With
Clarke's early poetry was deeply influenced by the work of William Butler Yeats, and he came to be regarded as one of the greatest Irish poets in the generation following Yeats.
