James Joyce: Poems

James Joyce is most celebrated for his remarkable novel <i>Ulysses</i> and yet he was also an accomplished poet. <i>Chamber Music</i> his debut collection fused the styles of the Celtic Revival with his own brand of ironic exuberance. <i>Pomes Penyeach</i> a collection written when Joyce had published <i>Dubliners </i>and was completing <i>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</i> explores intimate themes of adultery jealousy and betrayal that would reappear transformed in the later <i>Ulysses</i>. Joyce's occasional verse includes the well-known Ecce Puer written for his newborn grandson and his satirical poems The Holy Office and Gas from a Burner. These poems are brought together here with Joyce's play <i>Exiles</i>--about an unconventional couple involved in a love triangle--in a beautiful accessible hardcover edition for the general reader.