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Poems

By James Joyce
Penguin Classics
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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The poems published in Joyce's own lifetime are collected in a new edition, with an introduction and notes by scholar Clare Hutton. It is only James Joyce's towering genius as a novelist that has led to his comparative neglect as a poet. And yet his poems... Read More
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The poems published in Joyce's own lifetime are collected in a new edition, with an introduction and notes by scholar Clare Hutton.

It is only James Joyce's towering genius as a novelist that has led to his comparative neglect as a poet. And yet his poems not only occupy a pivotal position in Joyce's career, they are also magnificently assured achievements in their own right. Chamber Music is an extraordinary debut, fusing a broad swathe of styles with characteristically sharp irony and joyful verbal exuberance. Pomes Penyeach confronts painful personal issues of adultery, jealousy and betrayal and so paves the way for the more detached and fully realised treatment of these feelings in Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses.

Also included here is Ecce Puer, written for his new-born grandson, as well as juvenilia, satires, translations, limericks, and a parody of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241406045

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 June 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 8.0mm

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 122g

Pages: 144

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About the Author

James Joyce was born in Dublin on 2 February 1882, the eldest of ten children in a family which, after brief prosperity, collapsed into poverty. He was none the less educated at the best Jesuit schools and then at University College, Dublin, and displayed considerable academic and literary ability. Although he spent most of his adult life outside Ireland, Joyce's psychological and fictional universe is firmly rooted in his native Dublin, the city which provides the settings and much of the subject matter for all his fiction. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922) and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake (1939), as well as the short story collection Dubliners (1914) and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). James Joyce died in Z rich, on 13 January 1941.

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