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This guide to James Joyce's major novels presents a refreshing approach to understanding the work of this challenging and enigmatic giant of twentieth- century literature. Taking the student through a careful, step-by-step analysis of each text, John Blades demonstrates a practical and lively method of critical analysis.

Detailed analysis of the poems is closely grounded in the historical and literary contexts in which Lyrical Ballads was first conceived and realized. John Blades traces the history of the work over the two centuries since first publication.