Poems and shorter writings: Including Epiphanies, Giacomo Joyce, and 'A Portrait of the artist'

Joyce, James (1882-1941)

ISBN 10: 0571143059 / ISBN 13: 9780571143054

Published by London : Faber and Faber, 1991

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Poems and shorter writings: Including Epiphanies, Giacomo Joyce, and 'A Portrait of the artist'
• Publisher: London : Faber and Faber
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571143059
• ISBN 13: 9780571143054
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

This collection brings together all the poems published by James Joyce in his lifetime, most notably "Chamber Music" and "Pomes Penyeach". It also includes a large body of his satiric or humorous occasional verse, much of which is fugitive and little known to the general reader. In addition, the volume provides the text of the surviving prose "Epiphanies, Giacomo Joyce" - the fascinating Trieste notebook that Joyce compiled while finishing "A Portrait of the Artist" and beginning "Ulysses", in which he first explored the world of his autobiographical novel.

About the Author

James Joyce was born in Rathgar, Dublin, in 1882. In 1904 he and Nora Barnacle (whom he married in 1931) left Ireland for Trieste. Abroad, free from the restrictions he felt in Ireland, Joyce felt compelled to write of his native land, producing Dubliners (1914) and A Portrait of the Artist as Young Man (1916). During World War I, he lived in Zurich from 1915 to 1919, and in 1920 moved to Paris, where he spent most of the rest of his life. Towards the end of December 1939 James Joyce and Nora Barnacle left Paris for a small village near Vichy and ultimately settled in Zurich, where he died in January 1941. His major works, pioneering the 'stream of consciousness' style, are the novels Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939).