James Joyce’s «Chamber Music»

Chamber Music is a collection of poems by James Joyce, published 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»).

In fact, the poetry of Chamber Music is not in the least bawdy, nor reminiscent of the sound of tinkling urine. Although the poems did not sell well (fewer than half of the original print run of 500 had been sold in the first year), 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.

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