id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4870 John Millington Synge - Wikipedia .html text/html 4276 478 77 In 1899 he joined with Yeats, Augusta, Lady Gregory, and George William Russell to form the Irish National Theatre Society, which later established the Abbey Theatre.[15][9] He wrote some pieces of literary criticism for Gonne's Irlande Libre and other journals, as well as unpublished poems and prose in a decadent fin de siècle style.[16] (These writings were eventually gathered in the 1960s for his Collected Works.[17]) He also attended lectures at the Sorbonne by the noted Celtic scholar Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville.[18] Synge died from Hodgkin's disease at the Elpis Nursing Home in Dublin on 24 March 1909, aged 37,[41] and was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Harold's Cross, Dublin.[42] A collected volume, Poems and Translations, with a preface by Yeats, was published by the Cuala Press on 8 April 1909. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4870.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4870.txt