Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog "the atmosphere of schoolboy smut and practical jokes and poetry is evoked with lingering accuracy but with nothing more". Critic Jacob Korg later commented that "taken as a group, [the stories] seem to trace the child's emergence from his domain of imagination and secret pleasures into an adult world where he observes suffering, pathos, and dignity". The book has been described as showing Thomas' "waggish humor at its best, his exuberance & verbal magic in spectacular display". Apart from "Under Milk Wood", the book is "probably the most famous Dylan Thomas book published during his lifetime... certainly the most loved
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce showed some of the draft chapters to Ettore Schmitz, one of his language students, as an exercise. Schmitz, himself a respected writer, was impressed and with his encouragement Joyce continued work on the book. In 1911 Joyce flew into a fit of rage over the continued refusals by publishers to print "Dubliners" and threw the manuscript of "Portrait" into the fire. It was saved by a "family fire brigade" including his sister Eileen. "Chamber Music", a book of Joyce's poems, was published in 1907. Joyce showed, in his own words, "a scrupulous meanness" in his use of materials for