“And mixed up with the twilight and silence is a profound melancholy…” — Joseph Campbell

“And mixed up with the twilight and silence is a profound melancholy that rises out of the landscape itself, or is read into it by the greyness of one’s own experience.”

Recognising how landscape and personal emotion can become impossible to separate · Mearing Stones, Twilight and Silence

Joseph Campbell

About Joseph Campbell

15 July 1879–6 June 1944

In the pantheon of Irish literary figures who shaped the cultural renaissance of the early twentieth century, Joseph Campbell occupies a unique position as both a guardian of ancient Gaelic traditions and a modernizing force in Irish poetry. Born on July 15, 1879, in Belfast, and dying on June 6, 1944, Campbell lived…

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