A man who does not exist : the Irish peasant in the work of W.B. Yeats and J.M. Synge /
Fleming, Deborah.
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,
c1995.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"To write for my own race" : Irishness and Anglo-Irishness -- "This wise and simple man" : the noble savage and the pastoral -- Natural and supernatural -- The peasant and love -- "A man who does not exist" : the peasant as wanderer, outlaw, beggar, seer -- "A man who is but a dream" : the peasant as artist and hero -- Appendix : the Irish peasants.
Synge, J. M. (John Millington), 1871-1909
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939
Pastoral literature, English
English literature
English literature
Literature and society
Literature and society
Peasants in literature.