Richard Ellmann





Richard Ellmann

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born
March 15, 1918 in Highland Park, Michigan, The United States

died
May 13, 1987

gender
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Richard David Ellmann was a prominent American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats. Ellmann's James Joyce (1959), for which he won the National Book Award in 1960, is considered one of the most acclaimed literary biographies of the 20th century and the 1982 revised edition of the work was similarly recognised with the award of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. A liberal humanist, Ellmann's academic work generally focused on the major modernist writers of the twentieth century.


Average rating: 4.13 · 4,979 ratings · 387 reviews · 48 distinct works
Oscar Wilde
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 784 ratings — published 1987 — 14 editions
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James Joyce
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The Norton Anthology of Mod...
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Yeats: The Man and the Masks
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Ulysses on the Liffey
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1972 — 6 editions
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The New Oxford Book of Amer...
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1976
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Modern Poems: An Introducti...
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Four Dubliners--Wilde, Yeat...
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1986 — 10 editions
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The Trial of Oscar Wilde
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Eminent domain; Yeats among...
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