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Stephens (JAMES an Irish poet)

JAMES, an Irish poet and novelist. His childhood and youth were spent in wandering about Belfast and Ireland, enduring great hardships.

He finally became a clerk in a solicitor's office in Dublin. He published his first volume of verse, entitled "Insurrections," in 1900. This attracted wide attention.

It was followed by a second volume of verse, "The Hill of Vision," in 1912. In the same year he published two novels, "Mary, Mary," and "The Crock of Gold.' His writings contain evidence of un doubted genius. His later books include "Here Are Ladies" (1913); "The Demi- Gods" (1914); "The Rocky Road to Dublin" (1915); "Songs from the Clay" (1915).