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A publicist by profession, famed for inventing some of the most ingenious advertising slogans of his time, O ’ Neill was unusually adept at manipulating words and using them in an efficacious manner, but he refused to put that talent at the service of a lyrically lofty, feel-good sort of poetry ( see ‘ Simply Expressive ’).
Stridently anti-Romantic, concerned to keep humanity in its place as just one of earth ’ s species, he did not believe that an especially harmonious world was possible, and he abhorred all attempts to escape the world, whether through mystical or poetical exaltations.
Francis ’ s Empty Sandal ’, was in the connection ( never entirely peaceful ) he felt with other members of the species.
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