James Joyce (Critical Survey of Poetry)

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Although James Joyce published poetry throughout his career (Chamber Music, a group of thirty-six related poems, was in fact his first published book), it is for his novels and short stories that he is primarily known. These works include Dubliners (1914), a volume of short stories describing what Joyce saw as the moral paralysis of his countrymen: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), a heavily autobiographical account of the growing up of a writer in Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the...

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