Loneliness op. 39

The tendency has always been to consider "Chaber Music" by James Joyce as a collection of lyrics, not as a single, unified work. Critics write that these poems "seem trivial...exactong the final elegance from tradition," and that "Joyce sings of love in the manner of the Elizabethans and of the poets of the eighteen-nineties", that his "plaintive and cloying little stanzas could only have satisfied George Mmoore's canons of pure poetry." The title "Chamber Music" certailnly suggests a double meaning, and to admit it does no injury to the work. When Tindall writes that in "Chamber Music" "Joyce seems devoted to urination" he is perhaps carrying the double meaning too far. The final six poems of "Chamber Music" are concerned with loneliness and despair.

Lista utworów:
Chamber Music for High Voice and Piano (Finney Ross Lee)