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'A young man's ghost': Lady Gregory and J. M. Synge.(Critical Essay)
From: Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
Date: 20040322
Author:Pethica, James
In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in 1923 Yeats remarked that by rights 'two forms should have stood, one at either side of me,' to join in receiving the honour: 'an old woman sinking into the infirmity of age and a young man's ghost'. (1) In 'The Municipal Gallery Re-visited' written five years after Lady Gregory's death in 1932, he would evoke his fellow-Abbey Theatre Directors again--'John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory' (2)--now flanking him syntactically rather than physically. Yeats's self-positioning in both texts subtly reflects his sense of centrality and primacy in the ...
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