Ellmann, Richard

Ellmann, Richard

▪ American scholar
born March 15, 1918, Highland Park, Mich., U.S.
died May 13, 1987, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Eng.

      American literary critic and scholar, an expert on the life and works of James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Oscar Wilde, and other modern British and Irish writers.

      Ellmann graduated from Yale University (Ph.D., 1947) and taught at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., from 1951 to 1968, at Yale from 1968 to 1970, and at the University of Oxford from 1970 to 1984. His book Yeats (Yeats, William Butler): The Man and the Masks (1948; reprinted 1987) is a study of one of Yeats's intense conflicts, the dichotomy between the self of everyday life and the self of fantasy. The book revealed Yeats as a timid and confused man behind a facade of arrogance. Ellmann's definitive biography of James Joyce (1959; new and rev. ed., 1982) explored in detail aspects of Joyce's life and thought; his work on this biography led to his editing Joyce's letters (1966) and other works on Joyce. His later works include The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde and, as editor, Oscar Wilde: A Collection of Critical Essays (1970) and New Oxford Book of American Verse (1976). Ellmann's biography of Oscar Wilde appeared posthumously in 1988.

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