This volume combines two of novelist and lyric poet James Joyce’s poetry books — Chamber Music (1907), and Pomes Penyeach (1927), featuring a collection of 49 poems — plus “The Holy Office” and “Gas from a Burner.”
"This volume combines two of novelist and poet James Joyce's poetry books-Chamber Music (1907) and Pomes Penyeach (1927)-with "The Holy Office" (1904) and "Gas from a Burner" (1912)"--
Universally known for his groundbreaking prose - especially for the monumental novel Ulysses and its depictions of Dublin at the turn of the twentieth century - James Joyce started off as a writer of lyrical poetry, a genre which he never abandoned in his lifetime and which informs and enriches the rest of his literary production. This volume, which includes Joyce's first published book, Chamber Music, as well as his later collection Pomes Penyeach and several other uncollected poems, reveals a lesser-known facet of the great modernist's artistic career and a glimpse into his poetical sensibility.
This early work by James Joyce was originally published in 1927 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'Pomes Penyeach' is a collection of Joyce's poetry. James Joyce was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1882. He excelled as a student at the Jesuit schools Clongowes and Belvedere, and then at University College Dublin, where he studied English, French, and Italian. Joyce produced several prominent works, including: 'Ulysses', 'A Portrait of the Young Artist', 'Dubliners', and 'Finnegans Wake. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of the early twentieth century and his legacy can be seen throughout modern literature.
The essays gathered in Joyce in Progress are the fruit of the First Annual Graduate Conference in Joyce Studies held at the Università Roma Tre in February 2008, and organized by the Italian James Joyce Foundation. They are a testament to the enduring fascination of Joyce's writings and the ongoing liveliness of debate about the writer and his works and contexts. There is a wide array of genuine research on show here, which looks at Joyce from a variety of angles, focusing on his deeply complex autobiographical fiction through genetic studies, post-colonial studies, eco-criticism and intertextual and multi-modal approaches. This volume offers ground-breaking multi-disciplinary readings and usefully connects Joyce’s work with that of contemporary writers, rivals, followers, and successors.
2012 Reprint of Original 1957 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Includes three poems: "Chamber Music," "Pomes Penyeach" and "Ecce Puer" Joyce is considered one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominently the stream of consciousness technique he perfected. Joyce also published a number of books of poetry. His first full-length poetry collection "Chamber Music" (referring, Joyce explained, to the sound of urine hitting the side of a chamber pot) consisted of 36 short lyrics. Other poetry Joyce published in his lifetime includes "Gas From A Burner" (1912), Pomes Penyeach (1927) and "Ecce Puer" (written in 1932 to mark the birth of his grandson and the recent death of his father). It was published by the Black Sun Press in Collected Poems (1936).
It is only James Joyce's towering genius as a novelist that has led to the comparative neglect of his poetry and sole surviving play. And yet, argues Mays in his stimulating and informative introduction, several of these works not only occupy a pivotal position in Joyce's career; they are also magnificently assured achievements in their own right. Chamber Music is 'an extraordinary début', fusing the styles of the nineties and the Irish Revival with irony and characteristic verbal exuberance. Pomes Penyeach and Exiles (highly acclaimed in Harold Pinter's 1970 staging) were written when Joyce had published Dubliners and was completing A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Both confront painfully personal issues of adultery, jealousy and betrayal and so pave the way for the more detached and fully realized treatment in Ulysses. Joyce's occasional verse includes 'Ecce Puer' for his new-born grandson, juvenilia, satires, translations, limericks and a parody of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. All are brought together in this scholarly, fully annotated yet accessible new edition.
Matthijs ENGELBERTS: Avant-Propos/Introduction -- John PILLING: Beckett and "The Itch to Make": The Early Poems in English -- Thomas HUNKELER: "Cascando" de Samuel Beckett -- Mary Ann CAWS: Samuel Beckett Translating -- Mary LYDON: Beyond the Criterion of Genre: Samuel Beckett's Ars Poetica -- Jean-Michel RABETÉ: Beckett et la poesie de la zone: (Dante.Apollinaire. Céline.Lévi) -- Christophe WALL-ROMANA: Beckett au parloir: Poétique du transvoisement -- Michael STEWART: The Unnamable Mirror: The Reflective Identity in Beckett's Prose -- Yann MÉVEL: Molloy : Jeux et enjeux d'un savoir mélancolique -- H. PORTER ABBOTT: Beckett's Lawlessness: Evolutionary Psychology and Genre -- Catherine LAWS: Performance Issues in Composer's Approaches to Beckett -- Emmanuel JACQUART: Beckett et la forme sonate -- Wilma SICCAMA: Beckett's Many Voices: Authorial Control and the Play of Repetition -- N.F. LÖWE: Sam's Love for Sam: Samuel Beckett, Dr. Johnson and Human Wishes -- Bruce ARNOLD: From Proof to Print: Anthony Cronin's Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist Reconsidered.