“When I said the sonnet aloud to myself it seemed to rise out of the…” — Joseph Campbell

“When I said the sonnet aloud to myself it seemed to rise out of the landscape and to incorporate itself with it again as my voice rose and fell in the wandering cadences of the verse.”

Describing poetry as something capable of becoming inseparable from the landscape in which it is spoken · Mearing Stones, The General Light and Dark

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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