Who is James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, particularly stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, letters, and occasional journalism.

Joyce was born in Dublin into a middle-class family. A brilliant student, he attended the Jesuit Clongowe...
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James Joyce Poems

  • Tutto è Sciolto
    A birdless heaven, seadusk, one lone star
    Piercing the west,
    As thou, fond heart, love's time, so faint, so far,
    Rememberest. ...
  • From Dewy Dreams
    From dewy dreams, my soul, arise,
    From love's deep slumber and from death,
    For lo! the treees are full of sighs
    Whose leaves the morn admonisheth. ...
  • Tutto à? Sciolto
    A birdless heaven, seadusk, one lone star
    Piercing the west,
    As thou, fond heart, love's time, so faint, so far,
    Rememberest. ...
  • He Who Hath Glory Lost
    He who hath glory lost, nor hath
    Found any soul to fellow his,
    Among his foes in scorn and wrath
    Holding to ancient nobleness, ...
  • From 'ulysses'
    There's a ponderous pundit MacHugh
    Who wears goggles of ebony hue.
    As he mostly sees double
    To wear them why trouble? ...
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Ncreativityn: “a man's errors are his portals of discovery.” – james joyce
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