FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
JAMES JOYCE
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a headmaster at the Eton School in London.
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maintained an intense, scholarly interest in early English history.
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fluent in many other languages.
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a master of Irish.
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Detailed explanation-1: -He spoke italian (and triestine), french, german, norwegian, danish… he could read latin (no one ‘speaks’ latin..), and he certainly could read spanish and portuguese, as well as swedish and probably a bit of irish (though he could get things considerably wrong when trying to write irish words) and dutch…
Detailed explanation-2: -One of the most influential and innovative writers of the 20th century, James Joyce was the author of the short story collection Dubliners (1914) and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922), and Finnegans Wake (1939).
Detailed explanation-3: -James Joyce had been raised as a Catholic but not as a bilingual speaker of Irish and English. His parents were English speakers, the city where he lived was English-speaking, and his education had always been conducted in English, first with the Jesuits and then as an undergraduate at University College, Dublin.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hardly any writer felt so much at home in the English language as James Joyce, who explored it in all its dimensions; and whatever obstacles he puts in the readers’ way, a sheer enjoyment in what language can achieve can be experienced throughout Joyce’s works.