The Aran Islands
By: John M. Synge ; with an introduction by Edward J. O'Brien.
Publisher: Marlboro Press/Northwestern
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: Synge, J. M. 1871-1909 -- Travel -- Ireland -- Aran Islands; Aran Islands (Ireland) -- Description and travel
Description: "In the late 1890s, John M. Synge, in his middle twenties and unsure of his vocations made his way to Paris intending to study French literature and become a literary critic. There he met William Butler Yeats. The eminent poet advised Synge to drop his involvements with fin de siecle French authors, return to Ireland, and describe a society with which he had some natural connection.

Yeats recommended that Synge visit the Aran Islands, primitive and absolutely authentic places about which little had yet been written."--BOOK JACKET.

"Synge first traveled to the Aran Islands in 1898. His six-week trip proved to be a wonderfully fruitful and decisive experience. He then went back for part of each summer until 1902. The book that he wrote - and that he called his "first serious piece of work" - was published in 1907. What he learned from his visits to the Aran Islands led directly to the great plays for which he is chiefly remembered."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: This ed. first published: Marlboro, Vt. : Marlboro Press, 1989.