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Richard Ellmann

Born

in Highland Park, Michigan, The United States

March 15, 1918

Died

May 13, 1987

Genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction

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Richard David Ellmann was an American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats. He won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction for James Joyce (1959), one of the most acclaimed literary biographies of the 20th century. Its 1982 revised edition won James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Ellmann was a liberal humanist, and his academic work focuses on the major modernist writers of the 20th century. ...more

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	Oscar Wilde 4.01 avg rating — 5,189 ratings — published 1987 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	James Joyce 4.34 avg rating — 3,012 ratings — published 1959	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry by Richard Ellmann (Editor ), Robert O'Clair (Editor) 4.26 avg rating — 994 ratings — published 1973 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yeats: The Man and the Masks 4.05 avg rating — 338 ratings — published 1948 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Letters of James Joyce 4.20 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 1957 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Four Dubliners: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce and Beckett 3.77 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 1986 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ulysses on the Liffey 3.81 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 1972 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Modern Poems: An Introduction to Poetry by Richard Ellmann (Editor), Robert O'Clair (Editor) 4.18 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1976 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Oxford Book of American Verse (Oxford Books of Verse) 4.25 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1976 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Modern Tradition: Backgrounds of Modern Literature 4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1965 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths.”
― Richard Ellmann

tags: beauty, death, depths, life, water

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“Wilde had to live his life twice over, first in slow motion, then at top speed. During the first period he was a scapegrace, during the second a scapegoat. For the three and a half years he lived after his release from prison, he saw pass before him, mostly in dumb show, a multitude of people he had known earlier, who evaded him.”
― Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde

tags: gay-authors, gay-rights, oscar-wilde

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“we are all malefactors, all in need of forgiveness.”
― Richard Ellmann, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

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