“That seems to me a harsh but not unjust description.” — James Joyce | V2Melody

“That seems to me a harsh but not unjust description.”

Joyce’s willingness to accept criticism is tempered by his characteristic irony. · Letter to George Antheil, 3 January 1931

About James Joyce

James Joyce

2 February 1882–13 January 1941

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on 2 February 1882 at 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, then a prosperous southern suburb of Dublin, and died on 13 January 1941 in Zürich, Switzerland. He is most often called a novelist, and rightly so: Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake…

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Poems by James Joyce

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“The spirit which proceeds out of truth and beauty is the holy spirit of joy. These are realities and these alone give and sustain life.”

Joyce connects aesthetic experience with the sustaining force of joy. · Lecture, James Clarence Mangan, 1902

“I have been thinking all day what I could do or write. Perhaps there is something if I could only think of it. Unfortunately, I have very little imagination.”

The self-deprecating claim is strikingly at odds with Joyce’s reputation for extraordinary imaginative invention. · Letter to Ezra Pound, 1917

“Otherwise, write to Rodker and ask him to let you have the other copies.”

A practical glimpse of the complicated circulation of Ulysses during its composition. · Letter to Carlo Linati, 1920