Chamber Music

2012 Reprint of 1907 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. 'Chamber Music' is a collection of poems by James Joyce first published 1907. The collection originally comprised thirty-four love poems, but two further poems were added before publication. 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."