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Title

Poems and a Play / Joyce.

Author

Joyce, James, 1882-1941.

Publication

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

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Details

Description

234 pages; 17 cm

Summary

• "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 through the rest of his work. Joyce's other poems include the moving "Ecce Puer," written on 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"--
• "A selection of poems James Joyce published in his lifetime, along with his only surviving play, Exiles"--

Series Statement

Everyman's Library Pocket Poets

Uniform Title

• Works. Selections
• Everyman's library pocket poets.

Alternative Title

Works.

Subject

• Joyce, James, 1882-1941
• POETRY / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• POETRY / General
• Lyrik
• Drama
• Englisch

Contents

CHAMBER MUSIC (1907) -- I Strings in the earth and air -- II The twilight turns from amethyst -- III At that hour when all things have repose -- IV When the shy star goes forth in heaven -- V Lean out of the window -- VI I would in that sweet bosom be -- VII My love is in a light attire -- VIII Who goes amid the green wood -- IX Winds of May, that dance on the sea -- X Bright cap and streamers -- XI Bid adieu, adieu, adieu -- XII What counsel has the hooded moon -- XIII Go seek her out all courteously -- XIV My dove, my beautiful one -- XV From dewy dreams, my soul, arise -- XVI O cool is the valley now -- XVII Because your voice was at my side -- XVIII O Sweetheart, hear you -- XIX Be not sad because all men. -- XX In the dark pine-wood -- XXI He who hath glory lost, nor hath -- XXII Of that so sweet imprisonment -- XXIII This heart that flutters near my heart -- XXIV Silently she's combing -- XXV Lightly come or lightly go -- XXVI Thou leanest to the shell of night -- XXVII Though I thy Mithridates were -- XXVIII Gentle lady, do not sing -- XXIX Dear heart, why will you use me so? -- XXX Love came to us in time gone by -- XXXI O, it was out by Donnycarney -- XXXII Rain has fallen all the day -- XXXIII Now, O now, in this brown land -- XXXIV Sleep now, O sleep now -- XXXV All day I hear the noise of waters -- XXXVI I hear an army charging upon the land -- POMES PENYEACH (1927) -- 1 Tilly -- 2 Watching the Needleboats at San Sabba -- 3 A Flower Given to My Daughter -- 4 She Weeps Over Rahoon -- 5 Tutto è Sciolto -- 6 On the Beach at Fontana -- 7 Simples -- 8 Flood -- 9 Nightpiece -- 10 Alone -- 11 A Memory of the Players in a Mirror at Midnight -- 12 Bahnhofstrasse -- 13 A Prayer -- THE HOLY OFFICE (1904) -- GAS FROM A BURNER (1912) -- ECCE PUER (1932) -- EXILES (1918).

Call Number

ReCAP 15-38464

ISBN

• 9780375712333 (hardback)
• 037571233X (hardback)

LCCN

2013045916

OCLC

825733346

Author

Joyce, James, 1882-1941.

Title

Poems and a Play / Joyce.

Publisher

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Everyman's Library Pocket Poets

Everyman's library pocket poets.

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Research Call Number

ReCAP 15-38464