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SYNGE, John Millington (1871-1909). Autograph letter signed ('John M Synge') to Lady Gregory, 90 rue d'Arras, Paris, 'Wednesday night' [?30 April 1902], 2 pages, 4to (minute punctures along upper margins, traces of mount on verso)
Synge praises her book [Cuchulain of Muirthemne] which he compares with the 'puny pallid stuff' of modern writing, 'I am a somewhat quibbling spirit and I never expect to enjoy a book that I have heard praised beforehand, but in this case I have been altogether carried away. I had no idea the book was going to be so great ... the success of the whole is so triumphant.' He adds that he had told 'old Jubainville' about her work 'but I am afraid he looks at Irish things from a too scholarly point of view to appreciate their literary value as fully as we do.'
Cuchulain of Muirthemne, Lady Gregory's translation of legends about one of the principal heroes of the Ulster cycle of Irish mythology, was published by John Murray in April 1902 and regarded by W.B. Yeats as 'the best that has come out of Ireland'. The collection had a profound effect on Synge who began and finished both Riders to the Sea and In the Shadow of the Glen that summer. In Paris he attended Professor Jubainville's twice-weekly classes in Old Irish at the Sorbonne.
Synge praises her book [Cuchulain of Muirthemne] which he compares with the 'puny pallid stuff' of modern writing, 'I am a somewhat quibbling spirit and I never expect to enjoy a book that I have heard praised beforehand, but in this case I have been altogether carried away. I had no idea the book was going to be so great ... the success of the whole is so triumphant.' He adds that he had told 'old Jubainville' about her work 'but I am afraid he looks at Irish things from a too scholarly point of view to appreciate their literary value as fully as we do.'
Cuchulain of Muirthemne, Lady Gregory's translation of legends about one of the principal heroes of the Ulster cycle of Irish mythology, was published by John Murray in April 1902 and regarded by W.B. Yeats as 'the best that has come out of Ireland'. The collection had a profound effect on Synge who began and finished both Riders to the Sea and In the Shadow of the Glen that summer. In Paris he attended Professor Jubainville's twice-weekly classes in Old Irish at the Sorbonne.
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