One has, on one side, mallarme and Huysmans producing this literature; and on the other, Ibsen and Zola dealing with the reality of life in joyless and pallid words.
"The Playboy of the Western World"
J. M. Synge
France produces the finest flower of corruption in mallarme but the desirable life is revealed only to the poor of heart, the life of Homer's Phaeacians.
"Ulysses"
James Joyce
People have stated that Synge's masters in art were the writers of the French Decadent school of the eighteen nineties, Verlaine, mallarme, J. K. Huysmans, etc.
"John M. Synge: A Few Personal Recollections, with Biographical Notes"
John Masefield