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Synge John Millington. 1871--1909, Irish playwright. His plays, marked by vivid colloquial Irish speech, include Riders to the Sea (1904) and The Playboy of the Western World, produced amidst uproar at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 1907 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Synge in The Aran Isles, portraying a world on the point of disappearance, already losing its next generation to Dublin or London. Synge, Edwin Muir, George Mackay Brown, Paul Valery, Eugenio Montale, Osip Mandelstam, R. A similar sentiment can be found in James Weldon Johnson's Preface to the first edition of The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922), in which he declares that "what the colored poet in the United States needs to do is something like Synge did for the Irish" (41). |
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