UNLIMITED Audiobooks and eBooks

Over 40,000 books & works on all major devices

Get ALL YOU CAN for FREE for 30 days!

Chamber Music

James Joyce

Book Overview: 

Chamber Music is a collection of poems by James Joyce. The collection originally comprised thirty-four love poems, but two further poems were added before publication.

Although the poems did not sell well, they received some critical acclaim. Ezra Pound admired the “delicate temperament” of these early poems, while Yeats described “I hear an army charging upon the land” as “a technical and emotional masterpiece”. In 1909, Joyce wrote to his wife, “When I wrote [Chamber Music], I was a lonely boy, walking about by myself at night and thinking that one day a girl would love me.

How does All You Can Books work?

All You Can Books gives you UNLIMITED access to over 40,000 Audiobooks, eBooks, and Foreign Language courses. Download as many audiobooks, ebooks, language audio courses, and language e-workbooks as you want during the FREE trial and it's all yours to keep even if you cancel during the FREE trial. The service works on any major device including computers, smartphones, music players, e-readers, and tablets. You can try the service for FREE for 30 days then it's just $19.99 per month after that. So for the price everyone else charges for just 1 book, we offer you UNLIMITED audio books, e-books and language courses to download and enjoy as you please. No restrictions.

Book Excerpt: 
. . .XI
Bid adieu, adieu, adieu,
Bid adieu to girlish days,

XII

XII
What counsel has the hooded moon
Put in thy heart, my shyly sweet,

XIII

XIII
Go seek her out all courteously,
And say I come,

XIV

XIV
My dove, my beautiful one,
Arise, arise!

XV

XV
From dewy dreams, my soul, arise,
From love's deep slumber and from death,

XVI

XVI
O cool is the valley now
And there, love, will we go

XVII

XVII
Because your voice was at my side
I gave him pain,

XVIII

XVIII
O Sweetheart, hear you
Your lover's tale;

XIX

XIX
Be not sad because all men
Prefer a lying clamour before you:

XX

XX
. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Lovely collection, only knocking off one star because not all the poems were to my taste- still written beautifully just personal preference. My favourites are probably V (but that might just be because I’m ginger), XXIII, XXX and XXXI (Joyce knows know to end a poem wow) but my absolute favourite i

I must hesitantly admit that the biggest gap in my appreciation of literature is poetry. For all I know, the poems collected under the title of CHAMBER MUSIC may be the greatest ever written. From my perspective, they were fine ... but only one stayed with me (the discovery of a Love’s betrayal with

نخستین کتاب جویس که در زمان خودش انتشار یافت موسیقی مجلسی بود.کتابی که به تاثیر ایماژیست ها و احتمالن تاثیر نسبی ازرا پاوند نوشته شده.جویس البته در سرودن شعر جدی نبوده و می خواسته جهان خود را با قصه به دیگران نمایش دهد.
منوچهر بدیعی در کتاب جیمز جویس به نقل از استیوارت می نویسد:
شعرهای این مجموعه به م

View More Reviews