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Joyce: Poems and a Play (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) Hardcover – February 25, 2014

by James Joyce (Author)
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This selection of the major poems James Joyce published in his lifetime is accompanied by his only surviving play, Exiles.

Joyce is most celebrated for his remarkable novel Ulysses, and yet he was also a highly accomplished poet. Chamber Music is his debut collection of lyrical love poems, which he intended to be set to music; in it, he enlivens the styles of the Celtic Revival with his own brand of playful irony. Pomes Penyeach, a collection written while Joyce was working on A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, sounds intimately autobiographical notes of passion and betrayal that would go on to resonate throughout the rest of his work. Joyce’s other poems include the moving “Ecce Puer,” written on the occasion of the birth of his grandson, and his fiery satires “The Holy Office” and “Gas from a Burner.”

Exiles was written after Joyce had left Ireland, never to return; it is a richly nuanced drama that reflects a grappling with the state of his own marriage and career as he was about to embark on the writing of Ulysses. In its tale of an unconventional couple involved in a love triangle, Exiles engages Joycean themes of envy and jealousy, freedom and love, men and women, and the complicated relationship between an artist and his homeland.
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    February 25, 2014
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    4.4 x 0.75 x 6.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    037571233X
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0375712333
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James Joyce, the twentieth century’s most influential novelist, was born in Dublin on February 2, 1882. The oldest of ten children, he grew up in a family that went from prosperity to penury because of his father’s wastrel behavior. After receiving a rigorous Jesuit education, twenty-year-old Joyce renounced his Catholicism and left Dublin in 1902 to spend most of his life as a writer in exile in Paris, Trieste, Rome, and Zurich. On one trip back to Ireland, he fell in love with the now famous Nora Barnacle on June 16, the day he later chose as “Bloomsday” in his novel Ulysses. Nara was an uneducated Galway girl who became his lifelong companion an the mother of his two children. In debt and drinking heavily, Joyce lived for thirty-six years on the Continent, supporting himself first by teaching jobs, then trough the patronage of Mrs. Harold McCormick (Edith Rockerfeller) and the English feminist and editor Harriet Shaw Weaver. His writings includeChamber Music (1907), Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Exiles (1918), Ulysses(1922), Pomes Penyeach (1927), Finnegan's Wake (1939), and an early draft of A Portrait of a Young Man, Stephan Hero (1944). Ulysses required seven years to complete, and his masterpiece, Finnegan's Wake, took seventeen. Both works revolutionized the form, structure, and content of the novel. Joyce died in Zurich in 1941.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Everyman's Library (February 25, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 037571233X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0375712333
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.4 x 0.75 x 6.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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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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4.6 out of 5 stars
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The play Exiles, which covers the second half of the book, is not very good and quite unremarkable for Joyce’s caliber, but the anthology of poems is great. It contains two collections of Joyce’s published poetry and a couple other poems, all mostly of decent quality with an occasional gem hidden in-between.(Pictured beside glasses for size comparison)
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.Rodriguez
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For every Joycean scholar, this small volume is a Masterclass in language. I love this pocket series, because they get it right! Small portable size. Yet, large easy to read font! Highest quality paper. I want more of this pocket series, and so will you!
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Joan Vega
4.0 out of 5 stars Great collection
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The play Exiles, which covers the second half of the book, is not very good and quite unremarkable for Joyce’s caliber, but the anthology of poems is great. It contains two collections of Joyce’s published poetry and a couple other poems, all mostly of decent quality with an occasional gem hidden in-between.
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Joan Vega
4.0 out of 5 stars Great collection
Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2022
The play Exiles, which covers the second half of the book, is not very good and quite unremarkable for Joyce’s caliber, but the anthology of poems is great. It contains two collections of Joyce’s published poetry and a couple other poems, all mostly of decent quality with an occasional gem hidden in-between.
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Jeffrey Burghauser
2.0 out of 5 stars A Bit Thin
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2014
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This collection seems somehow “padded”—a meager drizzle of OK work straining to justify a handsome hardcover. The casual reader will understand very quickly why JJ never developed a reputation as a poet.
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