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Some years ago I made a selection from Oliver Gogarty’s poetry for the Cuala Press; and now I make another from what he has published between that and now.1 Oliver Gogarty is a careless writer, often writing first drafts of poems rather than poems but often with animation and beauty. He is much like that in his conversation; except that his conversation is wittier and profounder when public events excite him, whereas public events — some incursion of Augustus John, perhaps, benumb his poetry.2
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Oliver St John Gogarty, An Offering of Swans and Other Poems (Dublin: Cuala Press, 1923)
Yeats, in Wild Apples (Dublin: Cuala Press, Apr 1930).
Thomas Edward Lawrence, Reuolt in the Desert (New York: Doran, 1927), pp. 193
Abdulla el Nahabi (the Robber), who was recommended to T. E. Lawrence by Ambassador Abdulla ibn Dakhil. See Lawrence, Revolt in the Desert (New York: Doran, 1927), p. 195
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O’Donnell, W.H. (1988). Preface (1929) to Oliver St John Gogarty, Wild Apples (1930). In: O’Donnell, W.H. (eds) Prefaces and Introductions. The Collected Edition of the Works of W. B. Yeats. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06236-2_28
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