Samuel Beckett had a close relationship with James Joyce, serving as his secretary and assistant in the late 1920s. Beckett greatly admired Joyce's work and considered him a mentor. Joyce's writing style and innovative approach to literature influenced Beckett's own writing.
James Joyce! A fellow Irish writer whom he met while teaching in Paris. Beckett had an apprentice-type relationship, initially, with Joyce, the author of Finnegans Wake.
James Beckett - politician - died in 1938.
James Samuel died in 1874.
James Samuel was born in 1824.
D. Should artistic merit be the sole criterion for inclusion in the canon? Or, simply: What are the criteria for inclusion in the literary canon?
Samuel James Meltzer died in 1920.
Samuel James Ballard was born in 1765.
Samuel James Ballard died in 1829.
Samuel James Andrews was born in 1817.
Samuel James Andrews died in 1906.
Samuel James Thomson was born in 1922.
Samuel James Thomson died in 2006.