James+Joyce

Background Information: The famous James Joyce was born on February 2, 1882 and raised in Dublin, Ireland. Throughout his childhood, his family suffered with poverty and they struggled to try and stay in the middle social class. He began his work right when he got out of college and the first work that was ever published was “When We Dead Awaken” in 1898. Around the time of his first publication, he also started writing lyric poems and most of his poetry. When he moved to Paris to continue his writing and other activities, he soon found out that his mother was passing away and went back home to comfort her, but once she did pass on, he went on to travel more like before, but he was accompanied by his wife Nora Barnacle. He was now more focused on publishing his work and making writing more a permanent career choice. After his writing started to get more popular, he was the one who wrote Ulysses in 1922, which is now a common read in most English classes. Another one of his achievements is that he ended up making a new way of writing works, such as using allusions, puns, and he even created some new vocabulary in his famous writings and poetry. His work helped influence a better outlook on the world of mythology and history and inspired more people to try to express creative using a fresh way of doing so. James Joyce was a poet that helped inspire those of the past and those of the future to go on with mythology and literature to make it more unique and grand for years to come.

@James Joyce's Famous Poems

Works Cited: http://www.online-literature.com/james_joyce/ Johnson, "A Political Interpretation of Byron's // Marino Faliero, // " // Modern Language Quarterly, // 3 (September 1942): 417-425.