"Joyce's parallel use of
The Odyssey...has the importance of a scientific discovery...It is simply a way of controlling, of ordering, of giving a shape and a significance to the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history...It is, I seriously believe, a step toward making the modern world possible for art." -T. S. Eliot
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Ulysses has enough verbal splendor to furnish a legion of novels...You will have difficulty finding a fuller portrait of the natural man." -Harold Bloom,
The Western Canon "One might almost risk praising [
Ulysses] for being a work of literature in which the spirit of one man is eternally confirmed in all its complexity." -from the Introduction
With an Introduction by Craig Raine
