James Joyce

B.C. Southam

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780415444491
• eBook ISBN: 9781134539864
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Collections
• Index: Literature

The Collected Critical Heritage II comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995. The Critical Heritage series gathers together a large body of critical figures in literature. These carefully selected sources include: * comtemporary reviews from both popular and literary media. In these students can read about how Lady Chatterly's Lover shocked contemporary reviewers or what Ibsen's Doll's House meant to the early women's movement. * little-known documentary material, such as diaries and correspondence - often between authors and their publishers and critics. * landmark essays in the history of criticism. * significant pieces of criticism from later periods to demonstrate how an author's reputation changed over time.

1. George Russell (Æ) on James Joyce

1902

George Russell (Æ), in a letter to W. B. Yeats (? 11 August 1902).

From The Letters From Æ (1961), ed. Alan Denson, p. 43; also in The Letters of James Joyce, Volume II (1966), ed. Richard Ellmann, pp. 11–12.2.

. . . I want you very much to meet a young fellow named Joyce whom I wrote to Lady Gregory about half jestingly. He is an extremely clever boy who belongs to your clan more than to mine and more still to himself. But he has all the intellectual equipment, culture and education which all our other clever friends here lack. And I think writes amazingly well in prose though I believe he also writes verse and is engaged in wrriting a comedy which he expects will occupy him five years or thereabouts as he writes slowly. [George] Moore who saw an article of this boy’s says it is preposterously clever. [The essay is ‘The Day of the Rabblement,’ a 1901 attack on the Irish National Theatre Society.] . . . He is I think certainly more promising than Magee [William K. Magee who wrote under the pseudonym of John Eglinton]. . . .

2. Æ on Joyce

1902

George Russell in a letter to Sarah Pruser (15 August 1902).

From Æ, Letters, ed. Alan Denson, pp. 42–3; also in Joyce, Letters, Volume II, ed. Richard Ellmann, p. 13.

. . . I expect to see my young genius on Monday and will find out more about him. I wouldn’t be his Messiah for a thousand million pounds. He would be always criticising the bad taste of his deity. . . .

3. Stanislaus Joyce on his brother

1903

Extract from The Dublin Diary of Stanislaus Joyce (1962), ed. George H. Healey, pp. 13–14.

One of the earliest, 1903, critical comments on Joyce is this one by his brother Stanislaus in his Diary (see Introduction, p. 3).

His intellect is precise and subtle, but not comprehensive. He is no student. His artistic sympathy and judgment are such as would be expected in one of his kind of intellect—if he were not more than a critic, I believe he would be as good a critic of what interests him as any using English today. His literary talent seems to be very great indeed, both in prose and in verse. He has, as Yeats says, a power of very delicate spiritual writing and whether he writes in sorrow or is young and virginal, or whether (as in ‘He travels after the wintry sun’) [from ‘Tilly’, published in Pomes Penyeach] he writes of what he has seen, the form is always either strong, expressive, graceful or engaging, and his imagination open-eyed and classic. His ‘epiphanies’—his prose pieces (which I almost prefer to his lyrics) and his dialogues—are again subtle. He has put himself into these with singular courage, singular memory, and scientific minuteness; he has proved himself capable of taking very great pains to create a very little thing of prose or verse. The keen observation and satanic irony of his character are precisely, but not fully, expressed. Whether he will ever build up anything broad—a drama, an esthetic treatise—I cannot say. His genius is not literary and he will probably run through many of the smaller forms of literary artistic expression.

4. Æ on Joyce

1903

George Russell (Æ) in a letter to T. B. Mosher (3 November 1903).

From Æ, Letters, ed. Alan Denson, p. 50.

. . . Another boy named Joyce writes with perfect art poems as delicate and dainty as Watteau pictures. . . .

5. Stanislaus on Joyce

1904

Extract from The Dublin Diary of Stanislaus Joyce (1962), ed. George H. Healey, p. 23 (see Introduction, p. 4).

Diary entry for 29 February 1904: . . . I have no doubt that he is a poet, a lyric poet, that he has a still greater mastery of prose. He may be a genius—it seems to me very possible—but that he has not yet found himself is obvious.

6. Æ on Joyce

1905

George Russell (Æ) in a letter to T. B. Mosher (? April 1905).

From Æ, Letters, ed. Alan Denso...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• NOTES ON THE TEXT
• INTRODUCTION
• 1 GEORGE RUSSELL (AE) on James Joyce 1902
• 2 AE on Joyce 1902
• 3 STANISLAUS JOYCE on his brother 1903
• 4 AE on Joyce 1903
• 5 STANISLAUS on Joyce 1904
• 6 AE on Joyce 1905
• Chamber Music (1907)
• 8 THOMAS KETTLE, review in Freeman’s Journal 1907
• 9 SYMONS, review in Nation 1907
• 10 Notice in Bookman (London) 1907
• 11 Opinions of Chamber Music 1907
• 12 Review in Egoist 1918
• 13 ‘M.A.’ review in New Republic 1919
• 14 MORTON D. ZABEL on Chamber Music 1930
• 15 LOUIS GOLDING on Joyce’s poetry 1933
• 16 ARTHUR SYMONS on Joyce’s poetry 1933
• 17 ITALO SVEVO on Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist 1909
• Dubliners (1914)
• 19 SYMONS on Dubliners 1914
• 20 Review in Times Literary Supplement 1914
• 21 Review in Athencæum 1914
• 22 GERALD GOULD on Dubliners 1914
• 23 Review in Everyman 1914
• 24 Review in Academy 1914
• 25 EZRA POUND on Dubliners 1914
• 26 Review in Irish Book Lover 1914
• 27 A French view of Dubliners 1926
• 28 Review of the French translation 1926
• 29 Another French view of Dubliners 1926
• 30 Review of the French translation 1926
• 31 A later opinion of Dubliners 1930
• 32 Review of the German translation 1934
• Opinions: 1915–16
• 34 POUND to Mencken 1915
• 35 W. B. YEATS to Edmund Gosse 1915
• 36 W. B. YEATS on Joyce 1915
• 37 GEORGE MOORE on Joyce 1916
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
• 39 POUND on A Portrait 1917
• 40 Review in Everyman 1917
• 41 H. G. WELLS, review in Nation 1917
• 42 A. CLUTTON-BROCK, review in Times Literary Supplement 1917
• 43 Review in Literary World 1917
• 44 Review in Manchester Guardian 1917
• 45 FRANCIS HACKETT, review in New Republic 1917
• 46 Notice in Nation (New York) 1917
• 47 Review in Freeman’s Journal 1917
• 48 J. C. SQUIRE, review in New Statesman 1917
• 49 Review in Irish Book Lover 1917
• 50 JOHN QUINN, review in Vanity Fair 1917
• 51 VAN WYCK BROOKS, review in Seven Arts 1917
• 52 JOHN MACY, review of A Portrait and Dubliners 1917
• 53 Review in New Age 1917
• Comments on A Portrait: 1917–22
• 55 POUND to John Quinn 1917
• 56 An Italian comment on A Portrait 1917
• 57 JANE HEAP on Joyce 1917
• 58 MARGARET ANDERSON on Joyce 1917
• 59 A POUND editorial on Joyce and Wyndham Lewis 1917
• 60 WYNDHAM LEWIS on A Portrait 1937
• 61 JOHN F. HARRIS on the unconventional 1918
• 62 HART CRANE on Joyce and ethics 1918
• 63 VIRGINIA WOOLF on Modern Novels 1919
• 64 FLORENT FELS, review of A Portrait 1920
• 65 FORD MADOX FORD on Joyce 1922
• Exiles (1918)
• 67 G.B.S., the Stage Society and Exiles
• 68 POUND on Exiles and the modern drama 1916
• 69 Review in Freeman’s Journal 1918
• 70 A. CLUTTON-BROCK, review in Times Literary Supplement 1918
• 71 DESMOND MACCARTHY, review in New Statesman 1918
• 72 PADRAIC COLUM, review in Nation 1918
• 73 FRANCIS HACKETT, review in New Republic 1918
• 74 Little Review symposium on Exiles 1919
• 75 A French comment on Exiles 1919
• 76 FRANCIS FERGUSSON on Exiles and Ibsen 1932
• 77 BERNARD BANDLER on Exiles 1933
• Some Views from 1918 to 1921
• 79 POUND to Mencken 1918
• 80 POUND to John Quinn 1918
• 81 PADRAIC COLUM on Joyce and Dublin 1918
• 82 POUND on the early works 1918
• 83 SILVIO BENCO on Joyce and Trieste 1918
• 84 YEATS to John Quinn 1918
• 85 SCOFIELD THAYER on Joyce’s works 1918
• 86 POUND to John Quinn 1920
• 87 EVELYN SCOTT on Joyce and modernity 1920
• 88 J. C. SQUIRE on Joyce 1921
• 89 ARTHUR POWER on Joyce 1921
• 90 Joyce and Jazz prose 1921
• Ulysses (1922)
• 92 Ulysses and censorship 1921
• 93 RICHARD ALDINGTON on the influence of Joyce 1921
• 94 SHAW’s reaction to the Ulysses prospectus 1921
• Ulysses: Reviews
• 96 Review in Sporting Times (The Pink ‘Un) 1922
• 97 Review in Evening News 1922
• 98 JOHN M. MURRY, review in Nation & Athenœum 1922
• 99 HOLBROOK JACKSON, review in To-Day 1922
• 100 Review in Dublin Review 1922
• 101 Reaction to a review 1922
• 102 SHANE LESLIE, review in Quarterly Review 1922
• 103 GEORGE REHM, review in Chicago Tribune 1922
• 104 SISLEY HUDDLESTON, review in Observer 1922
• 105 GEORGE SLOCOMBE, review in Daily Herald 1922
• 106 ARNOLD BENNETT, review in Outlook 1922
• 107 JOSEPH COLLINS, review in New York Times 1922
• 108 EDMUND WILSON, review in New Republic 1922
• 109 MARY COLUM, review in Freeman 1922
• 110 GILBERT SELDES, review in Nation 1922
• Ulysses: Reviews of the American Edition (1934)
• 112 GILBERT SELDES, review in New York Evening Journal 1934
• 113 Review in Carnegie Magazine 1934
• 114 ROBERT CANTWELL, review in New Outlook 1934
• 115 EDWIN BAIRD, review in Real America 1934
• 116 Review of the English edition in New Statesman 1936
• 117 Review of the English edition in Times Literary Supplement 1937
• Contemporary Critical Opinions
• 119 POUND on Ulysses and Flaubert 1922
• 120 T. S. ELIOT on Ulysses and myth 1923
• 121 JOHN EGLINTON on Joyce’s method 1922
• 122 CECIL MAITLAND on the Catholic tradition 1922
• 123 ALFRED NOYES on literary Bolshevism 1922
• 124 FORD MADOX FORD on Ulysses and indecency 1922
• 125 PAUL CLAUDEL on Ulysses 1922
• 126 ROBERT MCALMON on Joyce and Ulysses 1920–2
• 127 OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY comment on Ulysses 1922
• 128 GERTRUDE STEIN on Joyce
• 129 YEATS to OLIVIA SHAKESPEAR 1922
• 130 HART CRANE on Ulysses 1922
• 131 FORD MADOX FORD on Ulysses 1922
• 1923
• 133 ALEISTER CROWLEY on the novel of the mind 1923
• 134 An interview with VALÉRY LARBAUD 1923
• 135 YEATS and the Dublin Philosophical Society 1923
• 1923 Ulysses
• 137 An Irish opinion of Joyce 1923
• 138 STEPHEN GWYNN on modern Irish literature 1923
• 139 ERNEST BOYD on Ireland’s literary renaissance 1923
• 1924 Ulysses
• 141 Comment on YEAT’s discovery of Joyce 1924
• 142 ALEC WAUGH on Joyce’s style 1924
• 143 FRANKLIN ADAMS, comment on Ulysses 1924
• 144 JULIEN GREEN comments on Ulysses 1924
• 145 EDMUND GOSSE to Louis Gillet 1924
• 146 LOUIS CAZAMIAN on Joyce and Ulysses 1924
• 1925
• 148 EDMUND WILSON on Joyce as a poet 1925
• 1925 Ulysses
• 150 EDWIN MUIR on the meaning of Ulysses 1925
• 151 A French critique of Louis Gillet 1925
• 152 German comment on Ulysses by BERNHARD FEHR 1925
• 153 REN’ LALOU on Joyce’s Works 1926
• 154 POUND on ‘Work in Progress’ 1926
• Pomes Penyeach (1927)
• 156 Æ review in Irish Statesman 1927
• 157 Review in Nation 1927
• 158 MARCEL BRION, review in Les Nouvelles littéraires 1927
• 159 EDMUND WILSON, review in New Republic 1927
• 160 PADRAIC COLUM, review in New York World 1928
• 161 ROBERT HILLYER, comment in New Adelphi 1928
• 1927
• 1927 Ulysses
• 164 ARMIN KESSER on the German Ulysses 1927
• 165 WYNDHAM LEWIS on time in Joyce 1927
• 166 HERBERT GORMAN on Joyce’s form 1927
• 167 YVAN GOLL on Ulysses 1927
• 168 Another GOLL comment on Ulysses 1927
• 1927 ‘Work in Progress’
• 170 HENRY SEIDEL CANBY, reaction to ‘Work in Progress’ 1927
• 171 ‘AFFABLE HAWK’ dissatisfaction with ‘Work in Progress’ 1927
• 172 WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS on Joyce’s style 1927
• 173 EUGÈNE JOLAS et al., answer Wyndham Lewis 1927
• 174 GERTRUDE STEIN and T. S. ELIOT on Joyce 1927
• 175 EUGÈNE JOLAS, memoir of Joyce 1927
• Anna Livia Plurabelle, ALP (1928)
• 177 PADRAIC COLUM, ‘Preface’ for Anna Livia Plurabelle 1928
• 178 SEAN O’FAOLAIN on the language of ALP 1928
• 179 GERALD GOULD, comment in Observer 1928
• 180 Review in Times Literary Supplement 1928
• 181 ‘, review in Irish Statesman 1928
• 182 O’FAOLAIN, reply to review in Irish Statesman 1929
• 183 EUGÈNE JOLAS, reply to Sean O’Faolain 1929
• 184 O’FAOLAIN, reply to Eugène Jolas 1929
• 185 CYRIL CONNOLLY, review in Life and Letters 1929
• 186 ARNOLD BENNETT, comment in London Evening Standard 1929
• 187 LEON EDEL on Work in Progress 1930
• 188 G. W. STONIER, review of ALP and Haveth Childers Everywhere 1930
• 189 T.L.S. review of ALP and HCE 1930
• 190 O’FAOLAIN re-reading of ALP 1930
• 191 PHILIPPE SOUPAULT and the French translation of ALP 1931
• 192 French comment on Work in Progress 1931
• 193 MAX EASTMAN, interview with Joyce about ALP 1931
• 1928
• 195 ELLEN GLASGOW on the novel 1928
• 196 DENIS MARION on Joyce 1928
• 1928 Ulysses
• 198 A French comment on Joyce the romancier 1928
• 199 REBECCA WEST on Joyce 1928
• 200 CAROLA GIEDION-WELCKER on Ulysses 1928
• 201 STEFAN ZWEIG on Ulysses 1928
• 202 GERHARDT HAUPTMANN on Ulysses 1928
• 203 ERNST R. CURTIUS on Joyce’s works 1928
• 204 WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS on Ulysses 1928
• 1928 Work in Progress
• 206 ROBERT MCALMON on Joyce, transition and ALP 1928
• 207 H. G. WELLS deserts the standard 1928
• 1929
• 1929 Ulysses
• 210 WYNDHAM LEWIS to A. Symons on Ulysses 1929
• 211 ADRIENNE MONNIER on Ulysses and French public 1929
• 212 ERNST R. CURTIUS on Ulysses 1929
• 213 JEAN CASSOU, review of French Ulysses 1929
• 214 ARNOLD BENNETT on the influence of Ulysses 1929
• 215 MARCEL BRION, review of Ulysses 1929
• 216 MARC CHADOURNE, comment on Ulysses 1929
• 217 PAUL SOUDAY, opinion of Ulysses 1929
• 218 MARCEL THIEBAUT, review of Ulysses 1929
• 219 BRIAN PENTON, comment on the form of the novel 1929
• 220 S. FOSTER DAMON on Ulysses and Dublin 1929
• 221 EDMOND JALOUX on the English novel 1929
• 1929 Work in Progress
• 223 MAX EASTMAN on unintelligibility 1929
• 224 HARRY CROSBY answers Max Eastman 1929
• 225 C. K. OGDEN on linguistic experiment 1929
• 226 ARNOLD BENNETT on the oddest novel 1929
• 227 C. GIEDION-WELCKER on Joyce’s experiment 1929
• 228 MICHAEL STUART on Work in Progress 1929
• Tales Told of Shem & Shaun (TTSS) (August 1929)
• 230 MICHAEL STUART on the sublime 1929
• 231 HAMISH MILES, review in Criterion 1930
• 232 Review in Saturday Review 1932
• 233 D. G. BRIDSON, review in New English Weekly 1933
• 234 E. OLD MEADOW, review in Tablet 1933
• 235 Unsigned comment on T. S. Eliot and Joyce 1933
• 1930
• 237 HERBERT READ on classic or romantic 1930
• 238 HERBERT READ on Joyce’s influence 1930
• 239 PHILIPPE SOUPAULT on Joyce 1930 (1943, 1959, 1963)
• 1930 Ulysses
• 241 G. K. CHESTERTON on Joyce 1930
• 1930 Work in Progress
• 243 REBECCA WEST on Work in Progress 1930
• 244 STUART GILBERT on Joyce’s growth 1930
• Haveth Childers Everywhere (HCE) (June 1930)
• 246 MICHAEL PETCH, opinion in Everyman 1931
• 1931 Ulysses
• 248 WYNDHAM LEWIS on Joyce 1931
• 249 HENRI FLUCHÈRE on Ulysses 1931
• 250 A FELLOW DUBLINER on Joyce, S. Gilbert and Gogarty 1931
• 251 HAROLD NICOLSON on the significance of Joyce 1931
• 1931 Work in Progress
• 253 GEORGE MOORE to Louis Gillet 1931
• 254 MICHAEL STUART on Joyce’s word creatures 1931
• 1932
• 256 ELLIOT PAUL, comment on Joyce 1932
• 257 DESMOND MACCARTHY on the postwar novel 1932
• 258 JOHN EGLINTON on the early Joyce 1932
• 1932 Ulysses
• 260 THOMAS WOLFE, comment on Ulysses 1932
• 261 CARL JUNG, letter to Joyce 1932
• 262 CARL JUNG on Ulysses 1932
• 263 L. A. G. STRONG on Joyce 1932
• 1933
• 265 MIRSKY on bourgeois decadence 1933
• 1933 Ulysses
• 267 POUND on Ulysses and Wyndham Lewis 1933
• 268 ROBERT CANTWELL on Joyce’s influence 1933
• 269 G. K. CHESTERTON on eccentricity 1933
• 1933 Work in Progress
• 271 RONALD SYMOND on ‘The Mookse and the Gripes’ 1934
• 1934 Mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies (Mime)
• 1934
• 274 JOHN H. ROBERTS on religion to art 1934
• 275 A Communist on Joyce 1934
• 276 FRANK BUDGEN on Joyce 1934
• 1934 Ulysses
• 278 ERNEST BOYD on Joyce’s influence 1934
• 279 KARL RADEK on Joyce’s realism 1934
• 280 FRANK SWINNERTON on Joyce and Freud 1934
• 1934 Work in Progress
• 282 EDITH SITWELL on prose innovations 1934
• 1935
• 284 L. A. G. STRONG on the novel 1935
• 285 L. A. G. STRONG on Joyce and new fiction 1935
• 1936
• 287 THOMAS WOLFE on Ulysses 1936
• 288 JAMES T. FARRELL, reply to Mirsky and Radek 1936
• Collected Poems (1936)
• 290 HORACE REYNOLDS, comment in New York Times 1937
• 291 IRENE HENDRY on Joyce’s poetry 1938
• 1937
• 1938
• 294 A Marxian view of Ulysses 1938
• 295 EUGÈNE JOLAS, homage and commentary 1938
• Finnegans Wake (1939)
• 297 PAUL ROSENFELD, review in Saturday Review of Literature 1939
• 298 LOUISE BOGAN, review in Nation 1939
• 299 Review in Times Literary Supplement 1939
• 300 PADRAIC COLUM, review in New York Times 1939
• 301 OLIVER GOGARTY, review in Observer 1939
• 302 EDWIN MUIR, review in Listener 1939
• 303 B. IFOR EVANS, review in Manchester Guardian 1939
• 304 G. W. STONIER, review in New Statesman 1939
• 305 GEORGES PELORSON, review in Aux Ecoutes 1939
• 306 MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE, review in Time and Tide 1939
• 307 ALFRED KAZIN, review in New York Herald Tribune 1939
• 308 MORLEY CALLAGHAN, review in Saturday Night 1939
• 309 RICHARD ALDINGTON, review in Atlantic Monthly 1939
• 310 Review in Irish Times 1939
• 311 HARRY LEVIN, review in New Directions 1939
• 312 WILLIAM TROY, review in Partisan Review 1939
• 313 A. GLENDINNING, review in Nineteenth Century 1939
• 314 Review in Dublin Magazine 1939
• 315 SALVATORE ROSATI, review in Nuova Antologia 1939
• Contemporary Critical Comment
• 317 DOROTHY RICHARDSON, opinion 1939
• 318 LEON EDEL on Finnegans Wake 1939
• 319 MARY COLUM on Finnegans Wake 1939
• 320 MARGARET SCHLAUCH on Joyce’s language 1939
• 321 LOUIS GILLET on Finnegans Wake 1940
• 322 WALTER RYBERT on how to read Finnegans Wake 1940
• 323 JOHN PEALE BISHOP on Finnegans Wake 1940
• 1941
• 325 VAN WYCK BROOKS on Joyce 1941
• Critical Obituaries
• 327 CYRIL CONNOLLY, in New Statesman 1941
• 328 Notice in New Republic 1941
• 329 STEPHEN SPENDER, in Listener 1941
• 330 OLIVER GOGARTY, in Saturday Review of Literature 1941
• 331 Notice in Times Literary Supplement 1941
• 332 J. DONALD ADAMS, in New York Times 1941
• 333 PADRAIC COLUM, reply to Oliver Gogarty 1941
• 334 FRANK BUDGEN, in Horizon 1941
• 335 T. S. ELIOT, in Horizon 1941
• After 1941
• 337 JAMES STEPHENS remembers 1946
• 338 OLIVER GOGARTY comments 1950
• 339 OLIVER GOGARTY corrects memories 1950
• 340 MARY COLUM corrects Gogarty 1950
• 341 STANISLAUS JOYCE corrects Gogarty 1953
• 342 MALCOLM COWLEY recalls Joyce and Sylvia Beach 1963
• 343 JANET PLANNER recalls Joyce and Sylvia Beach 1963
• 344 An Irish last word 1964
• APPENDIX A: Early Editions of the Writings of James Joyce
• APPENDIX B: Selected Bibliography
• APPENDIX C: Book–length studies published during Joyce’s lifetime and critical studies which have been collected or reprinted and are readily accessible
• APPENDIX D: Reviews and early critical studies excluded from this volume
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INDEX