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Customer Review: Beautiful Innocence!
Here you can find pure and beautiful words from the century author! Lovely to read simple words from the author who wrote ULYSS. because this book is out of print,have a taste:
STRINGS IN THE EARTH AND AIR
MAKE MUSIC SWEET
STRINGS BY THE RIVER WHERE
THE WILLOWS MEET.
THERE'S MUSIC ALONG THE RIVER
FOR LOVERS WANDERS THERE
PALE FLOWERS ON HIS MANTLE
DARK LEAVES ON HIS HAIR.
ALL SOFTLY PLAYING
WITH HEAD TO THE MUSIC BENT
AND FINGERS STRAYING
UPON AN INSTRUMENT.........
Customer Review: A mystery
Why are the little lyrics of the genius Joyce unlike the little lyrics of Blake, or Emily Dickinson, or William Butler Yeats? Why are the little lyrics of this great lyric artist so minor, and however their charm and music, of minor significance? Is it because Joyce has much greater lyrical works, with it being possible to argue that Finnegans Wake is one long poem alone? Or is it because the minor perceptions and feelings here do not strike us to the depth of the soul as the lyrics of Dickinson or Blake do?
As words of a great genius these small poems are valuable. As little poems of pleasure they also make sense. But had Joyce written only them he would not be remembered today. The same cannot be said of Dubliners or a Portrait or Ulysses.
Product Description
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish expatriate writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922) and its highly 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). Although he spent most of his adult life outside Ireland, Joyce's fictional universe is firmly rooted in Dublin, providing the settings and much of the subject matter for all his fiction. In particular, his tempestuous early relationship with the Irish Roman Catholic Church is reflected through a similar inner conflict in his recurrent alter ego Stephen Dedalus. As the result of his minute attentiveness to a personal locale and his self-imposed exile and influence throughout Europe, Joyce became simultaneously one of the most cosmopolitan and one of the most local of all the great English language writers.
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