| 单词 | Synge |
| 例句 | The century that separated me from Synge seemed suddenly trivial, and a world beyond these dry stone walls didn’t matter at all. Ireland’s Aran Islands, Hiding in Plain Sight 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Theater lovers will well remember the company’s triumphant presentation of “DruidSynge,” the cycle of the complete plays of J. M. Synge that roared into New York in 2006 as part of the Lincoln Center Festival. Theater Review: ‘DruidMurphy: Plays by Tom Murphy,’ at Lincoln Center 2012-07-09T22:58:53Z Synge’s 1904 play “Riders to the Sea” — while also making scrubs and masks for National Health Service staffers. For Simone and Max Rocha, Family Has Always Been a Source of Inspiration 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Synge would use this story and his visit to the site as the inspiration for his play, “The Well Of The Saints.” Ireland’s Aran Islands, Hiding in Plain Sight 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Synge, and were produced in collaboration with Poetry Ireland in Dublin, Druid Theater in Galway, the 92nd Street Y in New York and Poet in the City in London. New York Theaters Are Dark, but These Windows Light Up With Art 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z A Dubliner, he was educated at the Synge Street Catholic boys' school and acted from the age of eight at the Gaiety theatre. David Kelly obituary 2012-02-13T17:30:28Z I think the riots just showed how close to the bone Synge was. Niamh Cusack: 'Widow Quinn is an outsider. There's something incredibly anarchic about her' 2011-08-27T23:06:30Z “The rent simply went up to a level that was not sustainable,” Mr. Synge said. The New New Bond Street 2013-09-13T22:24:12Z The era of Synge was more familiar to some of the theatergoers on Sunday. ?Cripple? Finally Comes to Inishmaan 2011-06-29T21:52:37Z The seed of the play grew while Synge lived in rented rooms on Inishmaan, the largest of the Aran Islands. Some say the affable charm of the people and the culture is Ireland's draw, but it's the pubs 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Synge was wandering the west to portray the depths of poverty that was helping to destroy the community, and the paper used his descriptions as part of a fundraising campaign aimed at alleviating it. Path to enlightenment: how walking inspires writers 2012-08-09T08:51:33Z Taking us from her early days with the Abbey Theatre, through her ill-fated relationship with JM Synge to her sad declining years in 1950s London, this heart-rending story is beautifully told. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z Lives lost to the rough swells that Synge immortalized in his drama “Riders to the Sea.” ?Cripple? Finally Comes to Inishmaan 2011-06-29T21:52:37Z In his room here at the inn, they say, Synge lay on the floor with his ear to the boards, listening to the talk of the people below, making notes. Voyages: My Debt to Ireland 2012-02-10T20:35:10Z Synge marathon presented a decade ago by the Galway-based Druid theater company. Marie Mullen in 'Beauty Queen of Leenane': Daughter and mother, victim and villain 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z At the end of an exhausting season, he directed his first and favourite play, Synge's The Playboy of the Western World. TP McKenna obituary 2011-02-16T19:05:33Z Vaughan Williams, setting Synge almost verbatim, describes an Irish mother’s loss of her last son to a stormy sea, his father and four brothers having perished similarly before. Music Review: Juilliard Opera’s ‘Curlew River’ and ‘Riders to the Sea’ 2012-12-10T22:47:15Z The several dozen items available for auction included a candlelight dinner on the tower’s rooftop, a first-edition set of the works of J. M. Synge, two lambs, a goose and gander – but no showstoppers. The Tower That Enchanted Yeats 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z The idea came of inscribing to him the copy of Synge’s works I brought with me on this trip and leaving it in the little library on Aran. Voyages: My Debt to Ireland 2012-02-10T20:35:10Z A century after Synge’s last works were published, he may be the writer Ireland needs. Voyages: My Debt to Ireland 2012-02-10T20:35:10Z Synge noted many stories he’d heard of strange happenings on the island. Ireland’s Aran Islands, Hiding in Plain Sight 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Synge wasn’t confronted with the dozen or so glamping structures visible on arrival, for one. Ireland’s Aran Islands, Hiding in Plain Sight 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Synge is seen almost entirely through her eyes: a sick man and a strange one, aloof and tormented, though, to her, worth all the love and grief she spends on him. Ghost Light 2010-06-18T23:05:00Z The foremost playwright of the Irish Renaissance — a movement inspired by strong political Nationalism and a revival of Celtic traditions — Synge was co-founder of the Abbey, also known as the National Theatre of Ireland. Ireland’s Aran Islands, Hiding in Plain Sight 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Back on the road I passed a water well, doubtless one of the “sacred wells” that Synge mentions in his account. Voyages: My Debt to Ireland 2012-02-10T20:35:10Z Joseph O'Connor mostly doesn't get inside Synge's head because it is Molly's head he's in. Ghost Light 2010-06-18T23:05:00Z It's a characterization that stops short of being comic but has some of the same bluster and blunder one finds in the characters of Synge and O'Casey. 'Anna Christie' habors but a spark of greatness 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z The earth floor is the floor we used for Synge. Druid Theater Company Makes Shakespeare’s Histories Its Own 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z It’s just the kind of scene that Synge’s detractors hated him for. Voyages: My Debt to Ireland 2012-02-10T20:35:10Z Synge encountered people who carried themselves with workaday dignity and offered a humble, sincere welcome — exactly what I found on Inishmaan 120 years later. Ireland’s Aran Islands, Hiding in Plain Sight 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z People were sympathetic, Synge speculated, because the criminal had clearly been distraught. Some say the affable charm of the people and the culture is Ireland's draw, but it's the pubs 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z No other writer is more closely associated with this place and its people than Synge, although in many ways he makes an unlikely representative. Voyages: My Debt to Ireland 2012-02-10T20:35:10Z But Synge and Yeats were not in pursuit of the picturesque to entertain the Guardian readership. Path to enlightenment: how walking inspires writers 2012-08-09T08:51:33Z His 2010 book, “Ghost Light,” chronicled the love affair between a young actress and the playwright John Millington Synge. Review | In the gripping ‘My Father’s House,’ a priest takes on the Nazis 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Searching for examples to use in the essay, he remembered having seen — and not entirely understood — a production of Synge’s “Playboy.” Solas Nua mounts an updated ‘Playboy of the Western World’ 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z The roots of the violent proclivities in Martin McDonagh’s scathing contemporary comedies can be traced to Synge’s work. Review | 2 D.C. plays put wit and warmth on the map, from Ireland to Israel 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Synge about an elderly Irishwoman who loses her husband and six sons to the sea. Marga Richter, composer and champion of women in classical music, dies at 93 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z Synge exalted folk tales and poetry and the recording of peasants’ stories. The Real Irish History Behind Bloomsday 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Carney even attended the actual school on Synge Street —- where scenes from the film were shot and from where it gets its name — and now lives only about a 10-minute drive away. Irish filmmaker John Carney gives the modern movie musical a bit of a lift and his lilt in 'Sing Street' 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z He understood Synge’s script better when he read it, and indeed had an epiphany: Christy, whose tale of a violent past prompts strangers to welcome him, is “an archetype of an asylum seeker,” Adigun says. Solas Nua mounts an updated ‘Playboy of the Western World’ 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z Things look particularly bad for Conor when his parents announce that they can no longer afford his private Jesuit education, and pack him off to a rowdy, poorly run Catholic school called Synge Street CBS. John Carney rewrites his past as the bouncy pop musical Sing Street 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z They go with Sing Street, a play on Synge Street, that road the boys take to school. Sing Street is a return to form for the director of Once 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z But at the time of Synge’s writing, the suffering of Maurya and women like her were rarely dramatized on stage as poetically as they were by Synge. Not Your Average Mother's Day Mother ... From Literature 2013-05-12T15:06:50Z As often as there was a play of Shaw or Ibsen or Galsworthy or Maeterlinck or Shakespeare or Synge there were expeditions to peanut heaven. Immortal Youth A Study in the Will to Create 2012-04-03T02:00:30.247Z Those aspects of Irish dramatist J.M Synge’s “The Playboy of the Western World” famously sparked riots upon the play’s 1907 debut. Solas Nua mounts an updated ‘Playboy of the Western World’ 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z He has belittled the work of Lady Gregory, Yeats, and Edwin Martyn, and has rather patronised John M. Synge; the latter, possibly, because Synge was "discovered" by Yeats, not Moore. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z One is reminded of a similar case to his, that of the Irish dramatist, Synge. Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art 2012-02-14T03:00:24.393Z Mr. Moore somewhat grudgingly concedes that Synge was a man of genius and that Lady Gregory's plays, though inferior to the "Playboy" are all meritorious. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Only Ireland may answer, 'We have our George Moore, and we had our Synge not long ago—but we stoned his plays.' Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z The Ireland the play depicts — multicultural, modern, urban — is far from the homogenous Emerald Isle of shamrock-strewn cliche, and equally distinct from the insular and drolly tawdry backwater portrayed in Synge’s original script. Solas Nua mounts an updated ‘Playboy of the Western World’ 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z An auditor has not heard ten speeches of Synge’s Riders to the Sea37 before he knows that the dramatist is dealing seriously with grim matters, that, in all probability, the play is a tragedy. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z This is a very different thing from the dialogue of Congreve on the one hand or of J. M. Synge on the other. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z He also played several roles in the company’s comprehensive program of Synge’s works, known as “DruidSynge,” which appeared at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and at the in 2006. Mick Lally, Irish Actor and Founder of the Druid Theater, Dies at 64 2010-09-04T22:48:00Z Mr. Arthur Baker, Mr. Harold Lewis, Miss Synge, and members of the postal and telegraph, staff, also spoke. The Bristol Royal Mail Post, Telegraph, and Telephone Synge’s play tells of a rural County Mayo community that lionizes an outsider named Christy Mahon, the eponymous “playboy,” after he brags about murdering his father. Solas Nua mounts an updated ‘Playboy of the Western World’ 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z When on Inishmaan, Synge himself lived in just such a cottage as that which is the background for the tragedy of Maurya's sons. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors —J. M. Synge The overnight hike is more of a lark than the week-end hike. Campward Ho! A Manual for Girl Scout Camps But in writing of Synge I have run far ahead, for in 1896 he was but one picture among many. The Trembling of the Veil He had been proud of knowing about Synge at school. Years of Plenty Perhaps no Irish countryman had ever that exact rhythm in his voice, but certainly if Mr. Synge had been born a countryman, he would have spoken like that. The Cutting of an Agate Synge is also mighty fond of the words ditch and ewe. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors The names of Dunsany, Yeats, Synge, Lady Gregory, Galsworthy indicate somewhat the consistent merit of the collection and the certain stimulus of the chosen plays. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse He would have hated The Playboy of the Western World, and his death a little before its performance was fortunate for Synge and myself. The Trembling of the Veil Martin had bought books for Anstey, Synge at five shillings a volume. Years of Plenty Mr. Synge, indeed, sets before us ugly, deformed or sinful people, but his people, moved by no practical ambition, are driven by a dream of that impossible life. The Cutting of an Agate And there are certain forms of rhythm about Synge's prose which are used with equal frequency, and are quick and easy to catch. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors As a veracious study of life and character among Irish working classes ... it is superior to anything written by Synge, Yeats, or Shaw.... Changing Winds A Novel Henry F. Gilbert's music to Synge's play "Riders to the Sea" produced at a MacDowell Festival, Peterboro, N. H., conducted by the composer. Annals of Music in America A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events The name appears to have been indifferently spelt, Sing, Singe, and Synge. Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. It was J. M. Synge, and I, who thought I knew the name of every Irishman who was working at literature, had never heard of him. The Cutting of an Agate The climax must be carefully prepared for, as in Synge's Riders to the Sea, and the various devices used for heightening the suspense should be discovered and applied. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors Synge, and Oscar Wilde and Willie Wilde, who was the real genius of the family, only his genius “stuck in him somehow and wouldn’t come out.” The Ghost Girl Yeats, when he first heard Synge's early one-act play, The Shadow of the Glen, is said to have exclaimed "Euripides." Modern British Poetry As Deirdre says in Synge's great play, "It's a heartbreak to the wise that it's for a short space we have the same things only." The Merry-Go-Round While this work was passing through the press Mr. J. M. Synge died. The Cutting of an Agate The style of Synge is easy to copy because it is so largely composed of a certain phraseology. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors Synge says, “A ship annually arrives at Fort York for the service of the Hudson’s Bay Company; who can tell how many may eventually do so?” A Letter from Major Robert Carmichael-Smyth to His Friend, the Author of 'The Clockmaker' But although Synge's poetry was not his major concern, numbering only twenty-four original pieces and eighteen translations, it had a surprising effect upon his followers. Modern British Poetry At the time of the invasion, Dr. Synge was strongly urged to leave, but decided to stop with her wounded men. The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship I agreed with Mrs. Ascher thoroughly about the art of Synge's plays, and Lady Gregory's and Yeats', and the art of the players. Gossamer 1915 Synge, born April 16, 1871, at Newton Little, near Dublin, and dying in Dublin, March 24, 1909, belongs to that group of "inheritors of unfulfilled renown" who died before the prime of life was reached. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors Synge wishes to improve the old Line of water communication; and Colonization would then be naturally confined to the banks of Rivers and of Lakes. A Letter from Major Robert Carmichael-Smyth to His Friend, the Author of 'The Clockmaker' Even before Synge published his proofs of the keen poetry in everyday life, Kipling was illuminating, in a totally different manner, the wealth of poetic material in things hitherto regarded as too commonplace for poetry. Modern British Poetry Dr. Synge was asked by the sergeant to assure the people of Batochina that if there was no shooting, they would be perfectly safe. The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship History repeats itself, for, in 1907, a play by J. M. Synge was produced in Dublin, but— "The audience broke up in disorder at the word shift." The Romance of Words (4th ed.) This is like many Irish poets, but it is not worthy of Synge. Personality in Literature Synge—and such questions, I trust, will soon be answered by a Colonial Minister—that a new era will soon be open for the Colonies—new life and energy be given to them. A Letter from Major Robert Carmichael-Smyth to His Friend, the Author of 'The Clockmaker' Synge's poetry, brusque and all too small in quantity, was a minor occupation with him and yet the quality and power of it is unmistakable. Modern British Poetry Yeats and Synge have showed how completely it is possible to be Irish while using the English language. Irish Books and Irish People She had to pay for everything, down to her share of the wine-bills and the horses' fodder, down to Bertie Hammond Synge's fare in the "Underground" when he went to the City for her. Embarrassments Synge to create his finest imaginative effects by means of a severely realistic method. Personality in Literature Synge, and I think I have already explained that they are equally mine. A Letter from Major Robert Carmichael-Smyth to His Friend, the Author of 'The Clockmaker' A half year later when Synge read him Riders to the Sea, Yeats again confined his enthusiasm to a single word:—"Æschylus!" Modern British Poetry Synge disposed of that criticism—and, indeed, the Abbey Theatre in its tone as a whole may be accused of neglecting Ireland's gift for simple fun. Irish Books and Irish People That fate, in London, very little later, drove him straight before it—drove him one Sunday afternoon, in the rain, to the door of the Hammond Synges. Embarrassments What would we not give to have Synge's "brutality" introduced into the over-idealised and sonorous poetry of Mr. Yeats? Personality in Literature The Rev. Robert Synge is chaplain, a man of cheerful convivial manners, yet exceedingly attentive both as chaplain, and as guardian of his poorer countrymen. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 No fresher or more brightly vigorous imagination has come out of Ireland since J. M. Synge. Modern British Poetry The dramatic quality of these stories is achieved by virtue of a constant economy of selection, and a nervous singing speech as authentic as that of Synge. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Did she tell you how much the Hammond Synges have kindly left her to live on? Embarrassments One of the most singular qualities of Synge is the extraordinary common sense which sustains the gruesomeness of his tragic imagination on the one side, and his no less gruesome humour on the other. Personality in Literature Nicholas Synge, Bishop of Killaloe, left a daughter, Elizabeth, who died unmarried in 1834, aged ninety-nine; but I cannot discover that either of the other bishops of that family had a daughter Elizabeth. Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. It makes me think of those Yeats and Synge things I was reading up on just before I left home. Jane Journeys On Synge say that "Lady Gregory's method had brought back the possibility of writing historic plays." Magic A Fantastic Comedy The neglect of the Hammond Synges gave relief to this character, and she paid them handsomely to be, as every one said, shocking. Embarrassments It is by never departing far from the high-road of common fact that Synge suggests to us the fascinations, the dangers, and romance of the by-paths. Personality in Literature Synge wrote the play of her triumph over death as he himself was dying, and he wrote it with high heart, and, what is higher, gladness, despite his foreknowledge of his doom. Irish Plays and Playwrights Here are peasants that belong to a world as true and as deeply felt as those of Hardy and Synge. Krindlesyke The witchery of Yeats, the vivid imagination of Synge, the amusing literalism mixed with the pronounced romance of their imitators, have their place and have been given their praise without stint. Magic A Fantastic Comedy Synge drama, undertaken with the laudable intention of familiarising the suburb with the real Irish temperament and the works of the dramatist in question. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 4th, 1920 Captain Crosse, of the 52nd, was the first to reach the gate, followed closely by Corporal Taylor of his own company, and Captain Synge of the same regiment, who was Campbell's Brigade-Major. Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief "The irony of it" is always in Synge's writing even in its most exalted moments. Irish Plays and Playwrights Mr. Yeats has written broad comedy like Synge's Shadow of the Glen and Lady Gregory's Irish Comedies; his Pot of Broth is a most clever retelling of an old, comical tale. The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays Synge, author of "The Playboy of the Western World?" Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 I felt that I should know more about the villagers if I could learn, like Synge, their topics of conversation when no stranger was present. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People Mr. Synge's plays are the biggest contribution to Literature made by any Irishman in out time.... Ireland and the Home Rule Movement It is life—not any conventional way of life, or any ideal of life—that interests Synge, so he escapes ensnarement in any of the questions of the day. Irish Plays and Playwrights This phrase, which admirably expresses the best in the play-making going on to-day, finds most adequate illustration in the work of Synge, of Yeats, and of Lady Gregory herself. The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays The Irish Literary Theatre has already, in Mr. Yeats and Mr. Synge, two notable writers, each wholly individual, one a poet in verse, the other a poet in prose. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory Unfortunately, some disturbances in Dublin at the first production of The Playboy turned the play into a battle-cry, and the artists, headed by Mr. Yeats, used Synge to belabour the Philistinism of the mob. The Art of Letters Synge is so real it is impossible to resist him. Ireland and the Home Rule Movement If there is symbolism to be found in Synge, it is there only by accident, never as the result of definite intent. Irish Plays and Playwrights I. THE TRAGEDIES: Stories of the beautiful and potent queens who brought suffering upon themselves and upon others; compare Synge's and Yeats's stories of Deirdre. The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays The silent man reminds me of Synge in his drifting life and the fires glowing in his eyes. The Forgotten Threshold In the excitement of the fight they were soon talking about Synge as though Dublin had rejected a Shakespeare. The Art of Letters Mr. Synge ... certainly does possess a very keen sense of fact, as well as dramatic power and great charm of style ... one of the finest comedies of the dramatic renaissance ... sustained dramatic power.... Ireland and the Home Rule Movement Synge has no resentment against that truth, only interest in it as a fact that is true of people as he sees them. Irish Plays and Playwrights Synge at first wandered about Europe, poetizing; it was Yeats who brought him back to study and embody in genuine literature the poetry of life among his own people. The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays We find the two well contrasted in Synge's "Riders to the Sea" and his "Playboy." Principles of Freedom How many of these booms have we had in recent years—booms of Wilde, of Synge, of Donne, of Dostoevsky! The Art of Letters Mr. Synge has achieved a masterpiece by simply collaborating with nature. Ireland and the Home Rule Movement The play is an unforgettable symbol of that truth, but to make it such was not why Synge wrote it. Irish Plays and Playwrights Here, incidentally, we get a foretaste of that preoccupation with death which heightens the tensity in so much of Synge's work. Old and New Masters Synge wrote only one play—Riders to the Sea—that acts well. The Glories of Ireland Synge was undoubtedly a man of fine genius—the genius of gloomy comedy and ironic tragedy. The Art of Letters Synge, occupied with the vigorous and coarse-grained life of tinkers and peasants, are all in their separate ways a reaction against an age in which the overwhelming majority of men and women have sedentary pursuits. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge It is less representative of Synge because it has in it no humor, no quick changes of mood, no revelation of tumult of soul. Irish Plays and Playwrights The most masterly piece of literary advertising in modern times was surely Mr. Yeats's enforcement of Synge upon the coteries—or the choruses—as a writer in the great tradition of Homer and Shakespeare. Old and New Masters Here Wilde would talk and Synge would muse, Maybe like me with just ten sous. Ballads of a Bohemian Such a boom meant not the appreciation of Synge but a glorification of his more negligible work. The Art of Letters It is just such a tale, which there seems no valid reason for doubting, that Synge heard, and that gave the title, "Riders to the Sea", to his play. Riders to the Sea And if there is not the loneliness of the sea in the inland glens that Synge knew so well, there is in them the equal loneliness of the mountains. Irish Plays and Playwrights The critics outside Ireland, however, have had none of these causes of passion to prevent them from seeing Synge justly. Old and New Masters "I have always wondered why Yeats or Synge hasn't used it." Hermione's Group of Thinkers It was the chorus of imitative rapture over Synge a few years ago that helped most to bring about a speedy reaction against him. The Art of Letters The Aran Islands from which Synge gained his inspiration are rapidly losing that sense of isolation and self-dependence, which has hitherto been their rare distinction, and which furnished the motivation for Synge's masterpiece. Riders to the Sea No one could write with higher courtesy of those whose guest he had been than Synge. Irish Plays and Playwrights Synge was an extraordinary man of genius, but he was not an extraordinarily great man of genius. Old and New Masters Adventurers in New Worlds "A Book of Discovery," by M. B. Synge, fully illustrated from authentic sources and with maps. The Story of Mankind Synge had travelled a great deal in Italy in tracks he beat out for himself, and in Germany and in France, but he only occasionally spoke to me about these places. Synge and the Ireland of His Time It must have been on Synge's second visit to the Aran Islands that he had the experience out of which was wrought what many believe to be his greatest play. Riders to the Sea Synge is, indeed, not only loyal, but full of respect and liking for the Aran Islanders, and of admiration for their rich humanity. Irish Plays and Playwrights Once and once only Synge achieved a piece of art that was universal in its appeal, satisfying equally the artistic formula of Pater and the artistic formula of Tolstoi. Old and New Masters With writers like Synge and Stephens the Celtic imagination is leaving its Timanoges, its Ildathachs, its Many Colored Lands and impersonal moods, and is coming down to earth intent on vigorous life and individual humanity. Imaginations and Reveries Synge was always delighted to hear and remember any good phrase. Synge and the Ireland of His Time The other element in the story which Synge introduces into the play is equally true. Riders to the Sea Fortunately, Synge attempted no philosophy, had the rare wisdom to rest content with observation. Irish Plays and Playwrights Her genius, like Synge's, opened its eyes one day and saw spread below it the immense sea of Irish common speech, with its colour, its laughter, and its music. Old and New Masters Synge wrote few poems, and they came at intervals during a period of sixteen or seventeen years. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century Synge was always ready to go anywhere with one, and when there to enjoy what came. Synge and the Ireland of His Time Synge stood up to shake hands with me. John M. Synge: a Few Personal Recollections, with Biographical Notes In regard to poetry, as to all his art, Synge had, however, definite views, though his verse is almost too little in bulk to exemplify them. Irish Plays and Playwrights Not that she plundered them of their fantastic tropes so greedily as Synge did. Old and New Masters Mr. Yeats studied painting for years; A. E. is a painter of distinction; Synge an accomplished musician before he became a of letters. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century But all wild sights appealed to Synge, he did not care whether they were typical of anything else or had any symbolical meaning at all. Synge and the Ireland of His Time When I sat at the other end of the room my chair was opposite Synge's chair. John M. Synge: a Few Personal Recollections, with Biographical Notes It is to this, to the wandering wayside life of Synge that one's thought of him always returns, and rightly, for it was the road that most inspired him. Irish Plays and Playwrights Much of it is a record of quarrels with contemporaries—quarrels about Synge, about Hugh Lane and his pictures, about all sorts of things. Old and New Masters Synge had the greatest mental endowment of all the Irish writers of his time. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century When we started on our journey, as the train steamed out of Dublin, Synge said: 'Now the elder of us two should be in command on this trip.' Synge and the Ireland of His Time Synge gave one from the first the impression of a strange personality. John M. Synge: a Few Personal Recollections, with Biographical Notes Why quarrel with Synge, in short, because his style is of the very essence of life, and of nature, which is the background of life? Irish Plays and Playwrights "When my White Cockade was produced," Lady Gregory tells us, "I was pleased to hear that Mr. Synge had said my method had made the writing of historical drama again possible." Old and New Masters I do not envy any of the men or women who, for whatever reason, incurred the wrath of Synge. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century Synge was fond of little children and animals. Synge and the Ireland of His Time There was nothing vivacious, picturesque, rapid or vague about Synge. John M. Synge: a Few Personal Recollections, with Biographical Notes Their styles, respectively, in "Nan" and "Red Turf," have in them more than echoes of the style of Synge. Irish Plays and Playwrights During the Synge controversy he was a man raising his voice in the heat of battle—a man, too, praising a generous comrade who was but lately dead. Old and New Masters Synge was like a mastiff who bites without warning. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century So he was boss and whenever it was a question whether we should take the road to the west or the road to the south, it was Synge who finally decided. Synge and the Ireland of His Time The rush-bottomed chair next to him was filled by talker after talker, but Synge was not talking, he was answering. John M. Synge: a Few Personal Recollections, with Biographical Notes Though Mr. Mayne is a writer for the Ulster Literary Theatre of Belfast, his allegiance to the Abbey group is clearly indicated in "Red Turf," which is the result of a study of Synge. Irish Plays and Playwrights "With The Playboy of the Western World," says Mr. Howe, "Synge placed himself among the masters." Old and New Masters In the advance, Synge was more prophet than poet. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century Synge was by spirit well equipped for the roads. Synge and the Ireland of His Time When I hear these phrases, I know that those who utter them really met Synge. John M. Synge: a Few Personal Recollections, with Biographical Notes It is not a new saying, but it is not to be identified with the proverbial "a short life and a merry," with which some confuse it, and of Synge it was a true saying. Irish Plays and Playwrights But, after all, it is not Synge's characters or his plots, but his language, which is his great contribution to literature. Old and New Masters Synge was a terrible person, as terrible in his way as Swift. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century Synge, and I have known what it is to be changed by that I would have changed, till I became argumentative and unmannerly, hating men even in daily life for their opinions. Synge and the Ireland of His Time During the evening, I spoke a few words to Synge about some Irish matter. John M. Synge: a Few Personal Recollections, with Biographical Notes In the creation of character, as in style, and in technique of drama, Synge has done what he would. Irish Plays and Playwrights It became like a parody of the beautiful English Synge wrote in the noon of his genius. Old and New Masters The influence of Synge is strong in the second book of verses, called The Hill of Vision, particularly noticeable in such a poem as The Brute. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century Synge saying that Selections might be taken from his Essays on the Congested Districts. Synge and the Ireland of His Time Synge watched the task with the most keen interest. John M. Synge: a Few Personal Recollections, with Biographical Notes If ever there were characters that lived a life apart from their author's, those characters are Synge's. Irish Plays and Playwrights I cannot understand the special enthusiasm for The Playboy except among those who read it before they knew anything of Synge's earlier and better work. Old and New Masters In commenting on Synge's poem, The Curse, I spoke of the delight the Irish have in hyperbolic curses; an excellent illustration of this may be found in Mr. Stephens' latest volume, Reincarnations. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century Synge has won distinction for presenting the great elemental forces that underlie the actions of primitive human beings. Halleck's New English Literature Synge lodged in a front room on the second floor of No. 4, Handel Street, Bloomsbury. John M. Synge: a Few Personal Recollections, with Biographical Notes If you do not read the travel sketches, you may fail to see how deeply sympathetic Synge is with the Irish peasant, and in no patronizing way. Irish Plays and Playwrights The Playboy is a marvellous confection, but it is to Riders to the Sea one turns in search of Synge the immortal poet. Old and New Masters Synge, J. M., advice from Yeats; works; versatility; bitterness; theory of poetry; autobiographical poems; thoughts on death; influence on Stephens. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century Lady Gregory, Yeats, and Synge have all written plays based on Irish life, folklore, or mythology. Halleck's New English Literature Synge asked me to wait for a few minutes while he finished the draft at which he was working. John M. Synge: a Few Personal Recollections, with Biographical Notes The verse of Synge, as all his art, was so rooted, surely. Irish Plays and Playwrights Mr. Howe, who wrote a sincere and able book on Synge, may be taken as a representative apostle of the Synge cult. Old and New Masters Captain Glyn and Captain Synge had both been consulted, and the Duke of Newcastle had been applied to to obtain leave for Captain Synge at the War Office. Canada and the States Synge belongs in the first rank of modern dramatists. Halleck's New English Literature We do not know what Shakespeare thought: I do not know what Synge thought. John M. Synge: a Few Personal Recollections, with Biographical Notes It was for the purpose of affording comic relief to the plays of Mr. Yeats and to the first plays of Synge that Lady Gregory started to create them. Irish Plays and Playwrights There can never be any true criticism of Synge till we have got rid of all these obsessions and idolatries. Old and New Masters In dealing with these questions, I had to assume an authority which was to have been confided to a delegation, to consist of Captain Henry Glyn, Colonel Synge, and myself. Canada and the States The plays of Synge, the greatest member of the group, reveal the universal primitive emotions of human beings. Halleck's New English Literature But in the plays, Synge did with his personality as he did in daily life. John M. Synge: a Few Personal Recollections, with Biographical Notes The appeal of the repertoire was widened in 1903 by the inclusion of plays by Lady Gregory, Mr. Colum, and Synge. Irish Plays and Playwrights Mr. Howe says that "there is nothing for the symbolists in The Well of the Saints," but that is because he is anxious to prove that Synge was a great creator of men and women. Old and New Masters As before stated, I had expected to do so in company with Captains Glyn and Synge, without whom I should have hesitated to undertake the more extended and responsible task at first proposed. Canada and the States Yeats, suspecting that Synge could be an original writer as well as an interpreter of others, persuaded him to go back to Ireland, to the Aran Islands, off Galway. Halleck's New English Literature More than a year ago a friend asked me what sort of man Synge was. John M. Synge: a Few Personal Recollections, with Biographical Notes It was fortunate for the Irish drama, this meeting, and fortunate for Synge. Irish Plays and Playwrights Synge, in my opinion at least, was nothing of the sort. Old and New Masters Synge had not yet used it when he found in my Cuchulain of Muirthemne “the dialect he had been trying to master,” and of which he afterwards made such splendid use. The Kiltartan Poetry Book; prose translations from the Irish In old Maurya, Synge created an impressive figure of what Macbeth calls "rooted sorrow." Halleck's New English Literature The place where Synge and I used to sit has now been improved away. John M. Synge: a Few Personal Recollections, with Biographical Notes It is Synge himself who puts the just phrase on what his life was to him, and it is, as it could not else be, from the lips of his Deirdre that it falls. Irish Plays and Playwrights Then he told us it was Mr. Synge had sent him and we went with him. The Aran Islands Synge has promised me an article for Dana too. Ulysses Synge has dramatized the primal hope, fear, sorrow, and loneliness of life. Halleck's New English Literature For two or three months I met Synge almost daily. John M. Synge: a Few Personal Recollections, with Biographical Notes It was for a short space of years that Synge had "what is best and richest," hardly for the seven years of his great lovers. Irish Plays and Playwrights I said it would not be right to go without saying a word to Mr. Synge. The Aran Islands Synge has left off wearing black to be like nature. Ulysses The sombre loveliness and cleansing reality of Synge's masterpiece are almost unrivaled in our short-play literature. Washington Square Plays I only saw Synge on two other occasions. John M. Synge: a Few Personal Recollections, with Biographical Notes "Deirdre of the Sorrows," which Synge left unrevised, was first produced at the Abbey Theatre on January 13, 1910, the last of the six plays of his maturity. Irish Plays and Playwrights The neglect of the Hammond Synges gave relief to this character, and she made it worth their while to be, as every one said, too shocking. Glasses —The tramper Synge is looking for you, he said, to murder you. Ulysses Said an old shanachie to Synge on Inishere, when Synge had told him of a stock exchange trick, "Isn't it a great wonder to think that those men are as big rogues as ourselves?" Irish Plays and Playwrights The reader must however believe that the words quoted, if not the very words used by Synge, are as near to the very words as my memory can make them. John M. Synge: a Few Personal Recollections, with Biographical Notes Borrow, who comes to mind more often than any other writer as one reads Synge, chose to avoid love scenes, and Borrow's follower, Mr. Hewlett, for all his gusto, has no such exaltation as this. Irish Plays and Playwrights She had to pay for everything, down to her share of the wine-bills and the horses’ fodder, down to Bertie Hammond Synge’s fare in the “underground” when he went to the City for her. Glasses Synge had the great advantage of writing all his plays, after the earliest, for the stage. Irish Plays and Playwrights Had he written "Riders to the Sea" later, Synge would surely never have crowded into it incidents that took far longer in the happening than in the portrayal of that happening on the stage. Irish Plays and Playwrights People have stated that Synge's masters in art were the writers of the French Decadent school of the eighteen nineties, Verlaine, Mallarme, J. K. Huysmans, etc. John M. Synge: a Few Personal Recollections, with Biographical Notes I doubt if Synge had read Meredith, and even had he, the life of the roads and their cottages that Synge knew so well was his master, and no writer at all. Irish Plays and Playwrights That fate, in London, very little later, drove him straight before it—drove him one Sunday afternoon, in the rain, to the door of the Hammond Synges. Glasses This splendor Synge found also in his own Wicklow, a lonelier country than Aran, if loneliness comes from absence of human life. Irish Plays and Playwrights Synge is the one instinctive dramatist of the earlier group of writers of the Celtic Renaissance, the one to whom drama was the inevitable medium for the expression of the best that was in him. Irish Plays and Playwrights Yet even Synge came to write plays only through an external stimulus, the urging of Mr. Yeats on their meeting in Paris. Irish Plays and Playwrights In a way, of course, the Irish-English of Dr. Hyde's translations of "The Love Songs of Connacht" was an influence, and you will find many expressions common to them and Synge. Irish Plays and Playwrights Did she tell you how much the Hammond Synges have kindly left her to live on? Glasses That, of course, is but the way of nature, and so we much question if, after all, the irony of Synge is more insistent than the irony of nature. Irish Plays and Playwrights As one reads, aloud, as one must, one thinks now of the Old Testament and now of Synge. Irish Plays and Playwrights One may take it that this is Ireland, Ireland on the average, as one cannot take it that that we have in the plays of Synge or Lady Gregory is Ireland on the average. Irish Plays and Playwrights It is not important, however, whether these expressions have a common source, or whether Synge took them from "The Love Songs" rather than from his own note-book. Irish Plays and Playwrights I do not mean to say that Mr. Mayne is not familiar with the speech of Connacht, but that it is Synge who has taught him how to listen to it. Irish Plays and Playwrights It was produced shortly after its author became director of the Abbey Theatre, succeeding Mr. Synge in the spring of 1909. Irish Plays and Playwrights And this is from the unfinished second act, that Synge thought would scarcely be worth preserving. Irish Plays and Playwrights Whatever other quality may be dominant at any moment in Synge there is always, along with it, exaltation. Irish Plays and Playwrights Whatever their source it was Synge who made out of them a great style, his peasant style. Irish Plays and Playwrights It is the extravagance and grotesquerie, of both language and situation, that is the most immediately arresting of the qualities of Synge. Irish Plays and Playwrights If ever a man made his style himself, it was Synge. Irish Plays and Playwrights There might be incongruity, if one were writing of any other than Synge, in speaking of Deirdre in such a company. Irish Plays and Playwrights Incongruity, however, is of the very texture of Synge's art, which has reconciled qualities, as I have said, never before reconciled in English literature. Irish Plays and Playwrights |
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