Mc Donald Clarke
McDonald Clarke (1798–1842) was a poet of some fame in New York City in the early part of the 19th century. He was an influence on, and eulogized by Walt Whitman; but widely known as "the mad poet of Broadway", a label with which he identified. He is, arguably, an early example of an outsider artist.
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““Wherever there’s Kellys there’s trouble,” said Burke,
“Wherever fighting’s the game,
Or a spice of danger in grown man’s work,”
Said Kelly, “you’ll find my name.”
—Joseph I. C. Clarke (1846–1925)