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The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly is a song in book one of James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake (pages 44.24 to 47.32), where the protagonist H.C.E. has been brought low by a rumour which begins to spread across Dublin, apparently concerning a sexual trespass involving two girls in Phoenix Park; however details of HCE's transgression change with each retelling of events.
Finnegans Wake is a novel by the Irish writer James Joyce. It is known for its allusive and experimental style and its reputation as one of the most difficult works in literature. In 1924, it began to appear in installments under the title "fragments from Work in Progress". The final title was only revealed when the book was published on 4 May ...
Finnegan's Wake" (Roud 1009) is an Irish-American comic folk ballad, first published in New York in 1864. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Various 19th-century variety theatre performers, including Dan Bryant of Bryant's Minstrels , claimed authorship but a definitive account of the song's origin has not been established.
Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, letters, and occasional journalism. Joyce was born in Dublin into a middle-class family.
James Joyce used the story of Humpty Dumpty as a recurring motif of the Fall of Man in the 1939 novel Finnegans Wake. [31] [32] One of the most easily recognizable references is at the end of the second chapter, in the first verse of the Ballad of Persse O'Reilly:
He wrote organ symphonies, piano concerti, a cello concerto, three string quartets, a one-act opera, works for organ, piano and violin, a symphonic poem based on the 1939 novel Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, and a set of "Variations" on the 1858 opera Orpheus in the Underworld. [1]
In the musical output derived from the text of Finnegans Wake, Bartnicki's first publicly performed composition was A Redivivus of Paganinism: Variations on a Text by Joyce upon Lutosławski's Variations on a Theme by Paganini (Częstochowa, The Lutosławski Year celebrations, 2013), the most frequently recurring, however, were his imitations of John Williams's themes for Star Wars.
Strange Meeting" (1918) is a poem by Wilfred Owen, a war poet who used pararhyme in his writing. Here is a part of the poem that shows pararhyme: Too fast in thought or death to be bestirred. Then, as I probed them, one sprang up, and stared With piteous recognition in fixed eyes, Lifting distressful hands, as if to bless.