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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James Joyce Quotes

• Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
• Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
• History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
• History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awaken.
• Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives.

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Comments about James Joyce

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• Ncreativityn: “a man's errors are his portals of discovery.” – james joyce

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