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Chamber Music

Chamber Music

Joyce, James

Paperback

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 9357278761
ISBN13: 9789357278768
Publisher: Double 9 Booksllp
Published: Jan 1 2023
Pages: 44
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.11 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
James Joyce's book of poems titled Chamber Music was released by Elkin Mathews in May 1907. There were originally thirty-four love poems in the anthology, but two more were added before it was published (All day I hear the noise of waters and I hear an army charging upon the land). Although it is widely believed that the title refers to the sound of urine tinkling in a chamber pot, this is a later Joycean embellishment that gives an earthiness to a title that was initially proposed by his brother Stanislaus and that 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 would prefer a title that criticized the work while avoiding outright trashing it. Chamber Music's poetry isn't at all racy or evocative of the sound of tinkling urine, in fact. The poems were well-received by critics despite poor sales (less than half of the original print run of 500 had been sold in the first year).

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