“The sense of tears in me was touched for the clock, and I stooped down…” — Joseph Campbell

“The sense of tears in me was touched for the clock, and I stooped down to watch it crawling laboriously along in the dust, over a very rough road.”

Finding pathos and fellowship even in the determined journey of a tiny beetle · Mearing Stones, A Clock

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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