{"product_id":"9781523354221","title":"Chamber Music: A Collection of Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChamber Music\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy James Joyce\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChamber Music is a collection of poems by James Joyce, published by Elkin Mathews in May, 1907. The collection originally comprised thirty-four love poems, but two further poems were added before publication (\"All day I hear the noise of waters\" and \"I hear an army charging upon the land\").\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough it is widely reported that the title refers to the sound of urine tinkling in a chamber pot, this is a later Joycean embellishment, lending an earthiness to a title first suggested by his brother Stanislaus and which Joyce (by the time of publication) had come to dislike: \"The reason I dislike Chamber Music as a title is that it is too complacent,\" he admitted to Arthur Symons in 1906. \"I should prefer a title which repudiated the book without altogether disparaging it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Ellmann reports (from a 1949 conversation with Eva Joyce) that the chamberpot connotation has its origin in a visit he made, accompanied by Oliver Gogarty, to a young widow named Jenny in May 1904. The three of them drank porter while Joyce read manuscript versions of the poems aloud - and, at one point, Jenny retreated behind a screen to make use of a chamber pot. Gogarty commented, \"There's a critic for you!.\" When Joyce later told this story to Stanislaus, his brother agreed that it was a \"favourable omen.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Ulysses, Leopold Bloom reflects, \"Chamber music. Could make a pun on that.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CreateSpace Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46337944158449,"sku":"9781523354221","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781523354221_p0.jpg?v=1765229415","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781523354221","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}