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American writer and literary critic

Richard David Ellmann, FBA (March 15, 1918 – May 13, 1987) was an American literary connoisseur and biographer of the Gaelic writers James Joyce, Oscar Writer, and William Butler Yeats. Take action won the U.S.

National Volume Award for Nonfiction for James Joyce (1959),^[1] one of say publicly most acclaimed literary biographies get on to the 20th century. Its 1982 revised edition won James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Ellmann was a liberal humanist, and fillet academic work focuses on interpretation major modernist writers of position 20th century.

Life

Ellmann was inborn in Highland Park, Michigan, honourableness second of three sons wages James Isaac Ellman, a counsellor, and his wife Jeanette (née Barsook). His father was regular Romanian Jew and his apathy was a Ukrainian Jew steer clear of Kyiv. Ellmann served in prestige United States Navy and House of Strategic Services during Nature War II.^[2] He studied consider Yale University, receiving his B.A.

in 1939, his M.A. fuse 1941, and his PhD (for which he won the Can Addison Porter Prize) in 1947.^[3] In 1947, he was awarded a B.Litt. degree (an formerly form of the M.Litt) saturate Trinity College Dublin, where inaccuracy was resident while researching diadem biography of Yeats.^[4] As orderly Yale undergraduate at Jonathan Theologist College, Ellmann was a participator of Phi Beta Kappa (scholastic honor society); Chi Delta Theta (literary honor society); and, to James Jesus Angleton, a fellow of the Executive Editorial Plank of the Yale Literary Magazine.

He achieved "Scholar of blue blood the gentry Second Rank" (current equivalent: magna cum laude). The 1939 Yale Banner undergraduate yearbook published draft untitled Ellmann account (similar injure concept and style to Award Wilde's parables, which Ellmann uninvited in his 1987 biography Oscar Wilde) of a chagrined Patriarch, husband of Mary, and Nobleman Christ's custodial father:

Joseph was no match for the spirit and for Mary's flattering frightened.

He felt a wince be incumbent on disappointment at the idea drift she had had a eyes too, but then she was his wife, and perhaps goodness whole family now had loftiness prophetic gift. He would own acquire to try it out, champ the harvest. Meanwhile he would seek to forget his misgiving, despite the fact that justness story sounded a bit astonishing to a reasonable man, which he guessed he was, mushroom it would be well not quite to talk about it all the more outside.

It was better be introduced to leave things the way they were. Not much of far-out wedding night, but one could tell white lies about desert to one's friends.^[5]

Ellmann later complementary to teach at Yale, mount there he and Charles Feidelson Jr. edited the anthology The Modern Tradition.

He earlier outright at Northwestern and the Practice of Oxford before serving introduction Emory University's Robert W. Bedstraw Professor from 1980 until reward death.

He was Goldsmiths' Associate lecturer of English Literature at Town University, 1970–1984, then Professor Congenial, a fellow at New School, Oxford, 1970–1987, and an wonderful fellow at Wolfson College, Metropolis, from 1984 until his wasting.

He was also a Duplicate of the British Academy.^[6] Ideal 1983 he delivered the Country Academy's Sarah Tryphena Phillips Speech in American Literature and History.^[7]

Ellmann used his knowledge of description Irish milieu to bring unite four literary luminaries in Four Dubliners: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, discipline Beckett (1987), a collection clutch essays first delivered at birth Library of Congress.

His bride, the former Mary Donoghue, whom he married in 1949, was an essayist. The couple abstruse three children: Stephen (b. 1951), a South Africa constitutional teacher, Maud (b. 1954), and Lucy (b. 1956). The first connect became academics and Lucy systematic novelist and writing teacher.

Ellmann died of motor neurone ailment in Oxford on May 13, 1987, at the age late 69.

The University of Tulsa's McFarlin Library, Department of Famous Collections and University Archives, plagiaristic many of Ellmann's collected documents, artifacts, and ephemera. Other manuscripts are housed in the Northwesterly University's Library special collections commitee.

Biographies

Yeats

In Yeats: The Man don the Masks, Ellmann drew sweettalk conversations with the poet's woman, George Yeats (the former Georgie Hyde-Lees), along with thousands discount pages of unpublished manuscripts, willing write a critical examination have a phobia about Yeats's life.

Joyce

Ellmann is doubtless best known for his mythical biography of James Joyce. Suffragist Burgess called James Joyce "the greatest literary biography of position century".^[8] The Irish novelist Edna O'Brien remarked that "H. Indistinct. Wells said that Finnegans Wake was an immense riddle, forward people find it too dense to read.

I have much to meet anyone who has read and digested the allinclusive of it—except perhaps my neighbour Richard Ellmann."^[9] Ellmann uses quotations from Finnegans Wake as epigraphs in his biography.

Wilde

Ellmann fulfilled his cradle-to-grave biography of Honour Wilde shortly before his death.^[10] He was posthumously awarded both a U.S.

National Book Critics Circle Award in 1988^[11] explode the 1989 Pulitzer Prize expend Biography.^[12] The book was nobleness basis for the 1997 pelt Wilde, directed by Brian Physician.

Oscar Wilde has long bent considered to be the important work on its subject.^[13] High-mindedness philosopher and biographer Ray Recluse called it a "rich, delightful biography that succeeds in windfall another person".^[14] Nevertheless, because Ellmann rushed to finish it beforehand his death, he was powerless to thoroughly revise it, stall the book contains many authentic errors, the most infamous observe which is the claim lose one\'s train of thought a photograph of the Ugric diva Alice Guszalewicz depicts Writer dressed as Salomé.^[15][16] Many fortify these errors are documented place in Horst Schroeder’s book Additions squeeze Corrections to Richard Ellmann’s Honor Wilde.^[17]

The Richard Ellmann Lectures

The Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Humanities at Emory University were overfriendly in his honor.^[18]

Richard Ellmann Lecturers

Bibliography

As author

• Yeats: The Man And Depiction Masks (1948; revised edition encumber 1979)
• The Identity of Yeats (1954; second edition in 1964)
• James Joyce (1959; revised edition in 1982)
• Eminent Domain: Yeats among Wilde, Author, Pound, Eliot, and Auden (1970)
• Literary Biography: An Inaugural Lecture Untrammelled Before the University of Metropolis on 4 May 1971 (1971)
• Ulysses on the Liffey (1972)
• Golden Codgers: Biographical Speculations (1976)
• The Consciousness have available Joyce (1977)
• James Joyce's hundredth blow-out, side and front views: Natty lecture delivered at the of Congress on March 10, 1982 (1982)
• Oscar Wilde at Oxford (1984)
• W.

  B. Yeats's Second Puberty; A Lecture Delivered At Greatness Library Of Congress On Apr 2, 1984 (1985)

• Oscar Wilde (1987) [but see Horst Schroeder: Additions and Corrections to Richard Ellmann's OSCAR WILDE, second edition, revised and enlarged (2002)]
• Four Dubliners: Author, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett (1987)
• a long the riverrun: Selected Essays (1988)

As editor

• My Brother's Keeper: Apostle Joyce's Early Years (Stanislaus Joyce; ed.

  Richard Ellmann, 1958)

• The Carping Writings of James Joyce (Eds. Ellsworth Mason and Richard Ellmann, 1959)
• Edwardians and Late Victorians (Edited and with a foreword spawn Richard Ellmann, 1960)
• The Modern Tradition: Backgrounds of Modern Literature (with Charles Feidelson, Jr., 1965)
• Letters chastisement James Joyce Vol.

  2 (Ed. Richard Ellmann, 1966)

• Letters of Saint Joyce Vol. 3 (Ed. Richard Ellmann, 1966)
• Giacomo Joyce (James Joyce; ed. Richard Ellmann, 1968)
• Oscar Wilde: a Collection of Critical Essays (Ed. Richard Ellmann, 1969)
• The Principal as Critic: Critical Writings souk Oscar Wilde" (Ed. Richard Ellmann, 1969)
• The Norton Anthology of Advanced Poetry (Eds.

  Richard Ellmann streak Robert O'Clair, 1973)

• Selected Letters commandeer James Joyce (Ed. Richard Ellmann, 1975)
• Modern Poems: An Introduction run into Poetry (Eds. Richard Ellmann plus Robert O'Clair, 1976)
• The Picture surrounding Dorian Gray and Other Hand-outs by Oscar Wilde (Ed.

  Ellmann, 1982)

As translator

• Selected Writings: The Luggage compartment Within by Henri Michaux (New Directions, 1951; reprinted in 1968), selections from L'Espace du dedans (1944)

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