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SYNGE He was a solitary, undemonstrative man, never asking pity, nor complaining, nor seeking sympathy but in this book’s* momentary cries: all folded up in brooding intellect, knowing nothing of new books and newspapers, reading the great masters alone; and he was the more tfated because he gave his country what it needed, an unmoved mind where there is a perpetual last day, a trumpeting, and coming up to judgment. —W. B. Yeats: Preface to John M. Synge’s Poems and Translations. • Deirdre of the Sorrows.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24866, 4 May 1946, Page 5
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86MINUTE Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24866, 4 May 1946, Page 5
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