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Ellmann, Richard
Ellmann, Richard (1918–87), American scholar and biographer. 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 his 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 the New Oxford Book of American Verse (1976). His Oscar Wilde appeared in 1987.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Ellmann, Richard." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Ellmann, Richard." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-EllmannRichard.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Ellmann, Richard." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-EllmannRichard.html |
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Ellmann, Richard
Ellmann, Richard (1918–87), born in Michigan, received his B.A. from Yale. After his graduate studies he became an outstanding literary scholar teaching at universities in the U.S. and England, noted both for lectures and for his biographical and critical studies of major modern authors, including Yeats: The Man and the Masks (1948), The Identity of Yeats (1951), James Joyce (1959), and Oscar Wilde (1988), awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Ellmann, Richard." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Ellmann, Richard." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-EllmannRichard.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Ellmann, Richard." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-EllmannRichard.html |
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