Barnes, Djuna

Djuna Barnes, The Songs of Synge The Man Who Shaped His Life as He Shaped His Plays , The Morning Telegraph, 18 February 1917, p. 8. 

Phillip Herring, Djuna The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes (New Y ork Penguin, 1995), P- 1 3-... 

Djuna Barnes, An Irish Triangle A Play in One Aa, in Barbara Ozieblo (ed.). The Provincetown Players A Choice of the Shorter Works (Sheffield Sheffield Academic Press, 1994), pp. 236-7. 

Djuna Barnes s article on Synge published in the New York Morning Telegraph (18 Feb). 

If the new poetry cannot do the dirty work of prose, or be used for the common purpose of life , then prose will have to take on beauty and the other rights of poetry such as rhyme, metre, poetic diction (E4, p. 434). Interestingly, Eliot himself was later to write an Introduction to Djuna Barnes s experimental novel Nightwood (1937), in which he was keen to keep the two genres quite distinct. To say that Nightwood will appeal primarily to readers of poetry , he explains, does not mean that it is not a novel, but that it is so good a novel that only sensibilities trained on poetry can wholly appreciate it. And he is at pains to point out that her prose has... 

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