On 17 October 1906 Joyce wrote to Elkin Mathews about Chamber Music. Joyce wrote to Mathews on 17 October to say he was rearranging the poems in his collection Chamber Music and that he would send them on in a few days. The letter was in response to Mathews’ letter to Arthur Symons expressing […]
Chamber Music
On this day…15 October
On 15 October 1905 Joyce wrote to Grant Richards offering him Dubliners. By the time Joyce offered Dubliners to Grant Richards, he still hadn’t written the last of the twelve stories he’d planned. In what turned out to be something of an epic publishing saga, Richards first agreed to publish Dubliners in February 1906, […]
On this day…9 October
On 9 October 1906 Joyce updated his brother about Chamber Music amongst other things. In a lengthy letter to Stanislaus from Rome, Joyce wrote that he had heard from Arthur Symons to whom he had sent his collection of poems Chamber Music. Symons started his letter by offering Joyce advice on his growing difficulties […]
On this day…18 September
On 18 September 1904 Joyce wrote the poem ‘Bid adieu.’ Though the manuscript of the poem bears the date 18 September 1904, it is likely this is only a fair copy and that the poem was composed earlier. According to Patricia Hutchins, one of Joyce’s cousins claimed to remember him writing this poem on a […]
On this day…30 July
On 30 July 1904 a poem by Joyce was published in the Speaker. The poem, now Chamber Music xviii, had been sent earlier in the summer, and was published on 30 July 1904 in the English magazine, the Speaker. When Joyce was about to leave for Paris late in 1902, Yeats suggested that he could […]
