The Oxford Companion to English Literature | 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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