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129 8 John Mllllngton Synge and the Irish Theatre (NY: Blom, 1913), ch VI, pt Ix. 9 Synge and Anglo-Irish Literature (NY: Russell A Russell, 1965. [re-Issued"!- 1st. ed. 1931J), PP. 88-90. 10 John Mllllngton Synge (NY Sc Lond: Columbia U P, 1965), PP. 1213 . 11 For a more detailed discussion of verbal symbolism In this play, see Donna Gerstenberger's John Mllllngton Synge (NY: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1964), pp. 46-317" 12 Corkery, pp. 195-199· 13 Gerstenberger, p. 81. 14 See the discussion of this In Alan Price's book, Synge and Anglo-Irish Drama (Lond: Methuen, 1961), pp. 46-49. 149 appear mainly In parody. Though these fictional are not of a type, they have In common a sense of the world, resulting in either a rebellion agains drawal from It. They believe that personal moral to do with artistic excellence; they are sensitiv often to the point of hypersensitivity; and they attempt to salvage out of shapeless and meanlngle tic form; hence they act a role, or pose, as a me the power of artifice over nature. aesthete-artists alienation from t it or a withity has nothing e to ugliness, consciously ss life an artisans of asserting 160 "The Wisdom of Mark Rutherford," Nation (Lond), XVIII (26 Feb 1916), 758-59. W1S works, more than those of many Victorian writers, give us complete Insight Into the personality of the man. This odd duality (outward shyness. Inward desire to love) "makes his power and his appeal." Wolff, Renate Christine. "Currents In Naturalistic English Fiction , 1880-1920: With Special Emphasis on 'Mark Rutherford,'" Dissertation Abstracts. XIII (1952), 398-99. W maintains a balance between idealism and naturalism in his novels. Despite his "preoccupation with social misery," his novels show "heroic struggle. . .heroic resignation." W concerned with problems of religious doubt and "the Iniquity of the double standard and the aridity of the bourgeois marriage." Despite tendency to pessimism, W triumphed over it thanks to "Puritan upbringing. . .Carlyle, and his love of the romantic poets." Woodhead, W.D. "The Dalmonlon of Socrates," Classical Philology, XXXV (Oct 1940), 425-26. A letter which quotes a passage from Autobiography, Illustrating a voice like the Dalmonlon of Socrates which causes Rutherford to hesitate. "The World of Books," Nat Ion (Lond), XIV (3 Jan 191"O, 613. Brief notice of sale of W's library. Young, W.T. "Lesser Novelists," The Cambridge History of English Literature. 13 vols. Eds. Sir A.W. Ward, A.R. Waller. Cambridge: Cambridge UP; NY: Putnam's, 1917. XIII, 487-88. W untouched by the gradual erosion of fictional standards in the 1880's. "Thought, deeply pondered, emotional sincerity, vivid descriptive power, and critical restraint distinguish the prose of this singular writer." ...