Chamber Music James Joyce 9781492248187 Books
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Chamber Music By James Joyce Brand New Copy Chamber Music is a collection of poems by James Joyce, published by Elkin Matthews in May, 1907. The collection originally comprised thirty-four love poems, but two further poems were added before publication "All day I hear the noise of waters" and "I hear an army charging upon the land". Although it is widely reported that the title refers to the sound of urine tinkling in a chamber pot, this is a later Joycean embellishment, lending an earthiness to a title first suggested by his brother Stanislaus and which Joyce (by the time of publication) had come to dislike "The reason I dislike Chamber Music as a title is that it is too complacent", he admitted to Arthur Symons in 1906. "I should prefer a title which repudiated the book without altogether disparaging it." Richard Ellmann reports, from a 1949 conversation with Eva Joyce, that the chamberpot connotation has its origin in a visit he made, accompanied by Oliver Gogarty, to a young widow named Jenny in May 1904. The three of them drank porter while Joyce read manuscript versions of the poems aloud - and, at one point, Jenny retreated behind a screen to make use of a chamber pot. Gogarty commented, "There's a critic for you!". When Joyce later told this story to Stanislaus, his brother agreed that it was a "favourable omen".
Chamber Music James Joyce 9781492248187 Books
This is a slim volume of love poetry Joyce wrote years before Ulysses, his most celebrated work. Little in Chamber Music foreshadows the greatness to come, but not nothing. For example, already the author demonstrates a keen understanding of the English language as well as an ability to string musical-sounding words together in original ways, as in this stanza (from poem IX):"Winds of May, that dance on the sea,
Dancing a ring-around in glee
From furrow to furrow, while overhead
The foam flies up to be garlanded,
In silvery arches spanning the air ..."
The poems tell the tale of a tentative romance that ends in envy and disappointment, but paradoxically they are written with confidence, not trepidation. They're the poems of the man who got the woman and not the boy who lost the girl -- though they are about the boy. But Joyce uses great skill to penetrate the mystery of the boy's loss and pluck out the valuable elements, to sift the gold flakes from the sand, in other words. And so the collection deals more with the essence or urge of love than the departing of it, which I appreciated.
It should be noted, however, that this edition of Chamber Music is not annotated as indicated. It features only a small biographical note about Joyce and the New York Time's review of the book April 27, 1919, neither of which is particularly informative or interesting.
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Chamber Music James Joyce 9781492248187 Books Reviews
Delicate sentiments, rare use of language and poetic form.
Joyce is not known for his verse, indeed, he did not write a lot of it. This small book is charming in the way that Emily Dickenson is charming. I find nothing profound here. What I do find is virtually flawless use of the language. There are no improbable verses and no forced verses. A lovely read
This is a slim volume of love poetry Joyce wrote years before Ulysses, his most celebrated work. Little in Chamber Music foreshadows the greatness to come, but not nothing. For example, already the author demonstrates a keen understanding of the English language as well as an ability to string musical-sounding words together in original ways, as in this stanza (from poem IX)
"Winds of May, that dance on the sea,
Dancing a ring-around in glee
From furrow to furrow, while overhead
The foam flies up to be garlanded,
In silvery arches spanning the air ..."
The poems tell the tale of a tentative romance that ends in envy and disappointment, but paradoxically they are written with confidence, not trepidation. They're the poems of the man who got the woman and not the boy who lost the girl -- though they are about the boy. But Joyce uses great skill to penetrate the mystery of the boy's loss and pluck out the valuable elements, to sift the gold flakes from the sand, in other words. And so the collection deals more with the essence or urge of love than the departing of it, which I appreciated.
It should be noted, however, that this edition of Chamber Music is not annotated as indicated. It features only a small biographical note about Joyce and the New York Time's review of the book April 27, 1919, neither of which is particularly informative or interesting.
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