J. M. SYNGE via BOOMA: THE BOOKMAPPING PROJECT Booma: The Bookmapping Project involves a group of readers who look at the relationship between books or poems and place. In this post one of their contributors looked at John Millington Synge’s connections to the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland. The Dublin-born playwright first went to the islands in 1898 on the advice of W. B. Yeats. ----- The sense of solitude was immense. I could not see or realise my own body, and I seemed to exist merely in my perception of the waves and of the crying birds, and of the smell of seaweed.” --John Millington Synge, The Aran Islands
Posted on: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 10:45:16 +0000
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