James Stephens

I choose to research James Stephens based solely on my interest in his poem "The Main-Deep." I thought it was provoking and open to interpretation, which is one of the reasons I like poetry so much. After looking him up, however, I was pleasently surprised to find that he was an Irish poet that was born in Dublin in 1882, the same year as James Joyce. The two were friends and Joyce actually suggested Stephens finish Finnegan's Wake, if Joyce were not. I am facinated by Joyce and can see his influence in Stephens' poem that appears in our text.