We are coming for your national poets inexorably like lava. Rabindranath Tagore was from rural Limerick. Rumi's dad represented Ireland in javelin. William Shakespeare's real name is Liam Shaughnessy.
Blake is actually fairly important in the story of Irish poetry both because he is a very important English language poet in general and because of Yeats' construction of himself as 'like those nationalist poets except much better because I read Blake rather than nonsense ballads'
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