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Poems and shorter writings: Including Epiphanies, Giacomo Joyce, and 'A Portrait of the artist' First Edition
- ISBN-100571143059
- ISBN-13978-0571143054
- EditionFirst Edition
- PublisherFaber and Faber
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1991
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions9.65 x 1.15 x 8.75 inches
- Print length300 pages
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- Publisher : Faber and Faber; First Edition (January 1, 1991)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 300 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0571143059
- ISBN-13 : 978-0571143054
- Item Weight : 1.11 pounds
- Dimensions : 9.65 x 1.15 x 8.75 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #5,224,430 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #8,287 in Trade
- #14,451 in Literature
- #98,230 in Poetry (Books)
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John Whittier-Ferguson is Professor of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author of Framing Pieces: Designs of the Gloss in Joyce, Woolf, and Pound. He has co-edited, with Richard Ellmann and A. Walton Litz, James Joyce: Poems and Shorter Writings.
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 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 prominent among these the stream of consciousness technique he utilised. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, occasional journalism and his published letters.
Joyce was born in 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, Dublin—about half a mile from his mother's birthplace in Terenure—into a middle-class family on the way down. A brilliant student, he excelled at the Jesuit schools Clongowes and Belvedere, despite the chaotic family life imposed by his father's alcoholism and unpredictable finances. He went on to attend University College Dublin.
In 1904, in his early twenties, Joyce emigrated permanently to continental Europe with his partner (and later wife) Nora Barnacle. They lived in Trieste, Paris and Zurich. Though most of his adult life was spent abroad, Joyce's fictional universe centres on Dublin, and is populated largely by characters who closely resemble family members, enemies and friends from his time there. Ulysses in particular is set with precision in the streets and alleyways of the city. Shortly after the publication of Ulysses, he elucidated this preoccupation somewhat, saying, "For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal."
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Joyce wrote poetry on and off for most of his life, to the mild embarrassment of his modernist friends who couldn't understand how such a revolutionary prose writer could come out with such old-fashioned poems. His early work is very much that of a young writer on a testing ground, trying out the dominant fashions of the age and seeing how well they fitted. Much of his later poetry is comic - I have a friend who's memorised the rollicking satirical broadside "Gas from a Burner", written after Dubliners had been rejected for the umpteenth time - but there are some later lyrics which have appeal for more than just Joyce fans. (The short lyric "Ecce Puer" is his most famous poem, but I also like the sombre "Tilly" which was displayed on Dublin suburban trains for quite some time.) His "Epilogue to Ibsen's Ghosts" is one of the funniest and most acute of his late poems, simultaneously critiquing, celebrating and providing a sequel to the play.
The notes in this edition are very skimpy. Far better annotated is James Mays' Penguin edition of "Poems and 'Exiles'", which included Joyce's only surviving original play; but also omitting for copyright reasons work included here. You really wish that some good fairy could put a stop to the Joyce squabbles and provide us with a reasonably complete, more-or-less well-edited, properly annotated, uniform edition of the works, but it ain't gonna happen. In the meantime, the Penguin Joyce, this and the Critical Writings are all the amateur completist are likely to need. Oh, and the Selected Letters, if you're interested in contractual difficulties and the texture of Nora's underwear.
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