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Ellmann, Richard

Ellmann, Richard( 1918–87),
born in Michigan, received his B.A. from Yale. After his graduate studies he became an outstanding literary scholar teaching at universities in the U.S. and England, noted both for lectures and for his biographical and critical studies of major modern authors, including Yeats: The Man and the Masks (1948), The Identity of Yeats (1951), James Joyce (1959), and Oscar Wilde (1988), awarded a Pulitzer Prize.

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