Ellmann, Richard
Ellmann, Richard ( 1918 – 87 ),scholar and biographer, born in Michigan and educated at Yale University and Trinity College, Dublin. In 1970 he became Goldsmiths’ professor of English literature at Oxford. His publications include Yeats: The Man and the Mask ( 1948 , rev. 1979 ) and several works on Joyce , including notably his monumental, imaginative, and revelatory biography James Joyce ( 1959 , rev. 1982 ), which made a highly influential contribution to the new conception of the art of biography that developed at this period. He also edited (with Robert O'Clare ) The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry ( 1973 ) and the New Oxford Book of American Verse ( 1976 ). His Oscar Wilde appeared in 1987 .
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