qtd. in
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970.
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James Joyce
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Standard Name: Joyce, James
Irish exile JJ
, hailed by Yeats
as a new kind of novelist even before his first novel was published, became one of the leading practitioners of modernism. As well as poems, a play, and a volume of short stories, he produced three important novels, from the last of which he put out several separate sections long before the whole appeared. Joyce encountered obstacles to publishing almost all his books, raised by censors both official and self-appointed. Without the tireless patronage of Harriet Shaw Weaver
and Sylvia Beach
, his last two books might never have been published at all.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Harriet Shaw Weaver | In 1932Eliot
dedicated his Selected Essays to HSW
: in gratitude and in recognition of her services to English letters. |
| Reception | Dorothy Richardson | DR
read and, generally, appreciated the work of these authors. She knew of Joyce
at least by June 1919, when her own Interim began to be seralized in the Little Review (against the advice of... |
| Reception | Sylvia Beach | Le Mercure de France published its homage to SB
, with essays and poems by T. S. Eliot
, Janet Flanner
, André Gide
, James Joyce
, Gertrude Stein
and others. Mathews, Jackson, and Maurice Saillet. Sylvia Beach 1887-1962. Mercure de France, 1963. cover and prelims |
| Reception | Dorothy Richardson | Woolf's private and published statements on Richardson's texts are mixed. In January 1920, she mused in her diary about the danger [of] the damned egotistical self; which ruins Joyce
and Richardson to my mind: is... |
| Residence | Bryher | Shari Benstock
explains that the very wealthy Bryher had been advised to move to Switzerland for tax purposes. But Benstock also suggests that Bryher's Swiss home became a creative refuge for her and H. D... |
| Residence | Seamus Heaney | In Dublin SH
bought a house by a famous strand, that is, close to Sandymount, which features in a famous early scene in James Joyce
's Ulysses. qtd. in Corcoran, Neil. “Seamus Heaney obituary”. theguardian.com, 30 Aug. 2013. |
| Residence | Harriet Shaw Weaver | In May 1934, faulty wiring in the flat below hers caused an electrical fire in the building. HSW
's first editions were protected by her glass-fronted bookcase, but other precious books and mementoes such as... |
| Residence | Edna O'Brien | Her cluttered writing room has an arbutus desk, books (many of them signed gifts from their authors), candles, paintings, the faded and fraying tapesty carpet, and images of James Joyce
and Samuel Beckett
presiding at... |
| Textual Features | Edna O'Brien | This text consists of a long soliloquy by Mary Hooligan, a middle-aged woman who speaks from her four-poster bed in a London flat. Her self-reliance and immersion in memory, both positve and negative, help her... |
| Textual Features | Sylvia Beach | The memoir reads like a homage to the men and women who enriched her life personally, and the world of letters generally. SB
's generosity and goodwill made her censor much about her difficulties with... |
| Textual Features | Sylvia Beach | Reviewing the collection, Kathryn Hughes
found SB
's usual style characterised by a kind of polite chirpiness, with even faintly slangy expressions—jazzed up, my stars, corking—marked by scare quotes, and Beach's... |
| Textual Features | Katharine Tynan | She limited her selection to Irish lyrical poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, excluding political poems and poems either derived from English or already well-known to English audiences. Her wide range of poets included... |
| Textual Features | Caroline Norton | The Rebel, spoken by an imprisoned Irish harper who weep[s,] to think upon my country's chain, suggests both a sympathy with the cause of Ireland and the influence of CN
's friend Thomas Moore |
| Textual Features | Seamus Heaney | The title poem, wrote a critic some years later, wrestled towards a vision of poetic transcendence in the person of James Joyce
, TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 4601 (7 June 1991): 28 |
| Textual Features | Samuel Beckett | The publisher's blurb, talking about a new independent spirit at work and humour, the last weapon against despair, was remarkably percipient. qtd. in Federman, Raymond, and John, 1937 - Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press, 1970. 13 |
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