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Chamber Music (poetry collection)
Chamber Music is a collection of poems by James Joyce, published by Elkin Mathews 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").
Ezra Pound admired the "delicate temperament" of these early poems, while Yeats described "I hear an army charging upon the land" as "a technical and emotional masterpiece". -
Dubliners
Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.
The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and they centre on Joyce's idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character experiences a life-changing self-understanding. -
Ulysses
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It is considered one of the most important works of modernist literature.
Ulysses chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's "the Odyssey", and the novel establishes a series of parallels between the poem and the novel.
Joyce fans worldwide now celebrate 16 June as Bloomsday. -
Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake is a book by Irish writer James Joyce. It is significant for its experimental style and reputation as one of the most difficult works in the Western canon. Written in Paris over a period of seventeen years, Finnegans Wake was Joyce's final work. The entire book is written in a largely idiosyncratic language, and many critics believe the technique was Joyce's attempt to recreate the experience of sleep and dreams.
