A selection of ' 'Æ's' Poems
Read by NESTA SAWYER
Tonight Nesta Sawyer will read a selection from the poems of ' Æ ', the late George William Russell , who died at the age of sixty-eight on July 17. He was born at Lurgan. Co. Armagh, in 1867, was educated at Rathmines School, Dublin, became a clerk in a large Dublin warehouse, attended the Arts School in the evening, and in the course of time became one of the best known figures in literary and artistic Irish circles. Poet, artist, patriot, ' Æ' was a poet of ideas ; he was both mystic and practical man, both visionary and kindly host. The Sunday evening gatherings in his house were famous.
His pen name or rather initials
' Æ' stood for ' Aeon or eternity. He published three volumes of poems, apart from the ' Collected Poems issued in 1926. Homeward : Songs by the Way', 1894; 'The Earth Breath', 1897; 'The House of th< Titans and Other Poems ', 1934.