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Chamber MusicBy James JoyceBrand New CopyChamber Music is a collection of poems by James Joyce, published by Elkin Matthews in May, 1907. The collection originally comprised thirty-four love poems, but two further poems were added before publication "All day I hear the noise of waters" and "I hear an army charging upon the land". Although it is widely reported that the title refers to the sound of urine tinkling in a chamber pot, this is a later Joycean embellishment, lending an earthiness to a title first suggested by his brother Stanislaus and which 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 should prefer a title which repudiated the book without altogether disparaging it." Richard Ellmann reports, from a 1949 conversation with Eva Joyce, that the chamberpot connotation has its origin in a visit he made, accompanied by Oliver Gogarty, to a young widow named Jenny in May 1904. The three of them drank porter while Joyce read manuscript versions of the poems aloud - and, at one point, Jenny retreated behind a screen to make use of a chamber pot. Gogarty commented, "There's a critic for you!". When Joyce later told this story to Stanislaus, his brother agreed that it was a "favourable omen".
| ISBN-13 | 9781492248187 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1492248185 |
| Weight | 0.26 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.11 In |
| List Price | $8.95 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 46 pages |
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| Published On | 2013-08-25 |
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