Robin Skelton

Life
Scholar and friend of Synge; ed. J. M. Synge, Poems of John Millington Synge (OUP 1962), being Vol. 1 of The Collected Works of John Millington Synge, 4 vols. [eds. Skelton, Alan Price and Ann Saddlemyer] (OUP 1962-68); J. M. Synge and His Work (London: Thames & Hudson 1971); The Writings of J. M. Synge (Indianopolis & NY: Bobbs-Merrill 1971), 190pp., and Celtic Contraries (Syracuse UP 1990), 272pp and index.

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Works
ed. J. M. Synge, Poems of John Millington Synge (OUP 1962), being Vol. 1 of The Collected Works of John Millington Synge, 4 vols. [eds. Skelton, Alan Price and Ann Saddlemyer] (OUP 1962-68); with D. Clark, ‘An Irish Gathering’, Massachusetts Review (Winter 1964); J. M. Synge and His Work (London: Thames & Hudson 1971); The Writings of J. M. Synge (Indianopolis & NY: Bobbs-Merrill 1971), 190pp., and Celtic Contraries (Syracuse UP 1990), 272pp and index; also Popping Fuschias: Poems 1987-1992 (Vancouver, Cacanadadada 1992), 161pp.

Bibliographical details
Robin Skelton & David R. Clark, eds., Irish Renaissance: A Gathering of Essays, Memoirs, and Letters from the Massachusetts Review (Dolmen Press 1965), 167pp.; full page epigraphic quotation from speech of J. F. Kennedy (26 Oct. 1963)ded. John H. Hicks; Preface [11]; Curtis Bradford, ed., W. B. Yeats, Modern Ireland [13]; David R. clark, ed., W. B. yeats, ‘The Shadowy Waters’ (MS Version) [26]; G. O’Malley and D T Torchiana, eds., John Butler Yeats to Lady Gregory: New Letters [56]; Anne Saddlemyer, Synge to MacKenna: The Mature Years [65]; Curtis Bradford, ed., W. B. Yeats: Discoveries, 2nd Series [80]; Austin Clarke: A Centenary Celebration [90]; George Bernard Shaw: The Roger Casement Trial [94]; John Uterecker, ed., A Fair Chance of a Disturbed Ireland: W. B. yeats to Mrs. J Duncan [98]; Richard M. Kain, James Joyce’s Shakespeare Chronology [106]; Denis Johnston, Clarify Begins at: The Non-Information of Finnegans Wake [120]; Joseph Prescott, ed., Sean O’Casey Concerning James Joyce [128]; Seymour Rudin, Playwright to Critic, Sean O’Caseys Letetrs to George Jean Nathan [130]; David Krause, Sean O’Casey, 1880-1964 [139]; Robin Skelton, Twentieth-Century Irish Literature and the Private Press Tradition: Dun Emer, Cuala, and Dolmen Presses, 1902-1963 [158]. [Most of the foregoing printed in Massechussets Review, ‘An Irish Gathering’, Winter 1964]

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