''Riders to the Sea'' dramatist

Usage examples of synge.

Hardy, the great ironist of English literature of our day, and he is never bitter, for bitterness comes seldom except to the writer who is interested in morals, and morals interest Synge only in so far as they are natural.

Fay were still the leading men of the company, creating the principal characters of all the plays of Synge and of those of Mr.

The most beautiful English that I have ever listened to is the English of Synge as spoken by Mr.

Yeats and to the first plays of Synge that Lady Gregory started to create them.

Yet even Synge came to write plays only through an external stimulus, the urging of Mr.

Yeats and of Synge, I doubt whether it is drama that Lady Gregory would have chosen as the medium through which to express her reading of life.

Yeats and Synge, but also because of the practice of one type of gentlewoman in literature, of which Jane Austen is characteristic.

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.

Whatever their source it was Synge who made out of them a great style, his peasant style.

This latter style has borrowed some of the bare simplicity of the personal style of Synge, that style, I mean, in which he records his own experience in the Aran Islands or in Wicklow and Kerry.

I have to say about the exaltation of Synge to the forefront of what I have to say of him, that all may be read in the memory of this emphasis and of the exaltation of what I quote, no matter how fantastic or grotesque or disillusionizing or even ghoulish it may be.

Whatever other quality may be dominant at any moment in Synge there is always, along with it, exaltation.

A story told Synge on Inishere supplied the saint, and a tramp in Wicklow the thoughts of Martin Doul and Mary Doul as to the glory their hair would be to them in age.

The freshness and audacity of that imagination, and the beautiful extravagance of that speech, a speech modulated to a rhythm that Synge was the first to catch, are in themselves enough to give distinction to almost any subject.

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.