Life
1918-1987; literary critic; b. Michigan, ed. Yale and TCD; Goldsmith Professor
of English Literature, Oxon, 1970. OCEL OCIL FDA
Yeats, The Man and the Masks (1948, rev. 1979); The Identity of Yeats (1954); James Joyce (1959, rev. 1982); ed. New Oxford Book of American Verse (1976); Oscar Wilde (1988), and other works including Eminent Domain (1956), and Ulysses on the Liffey (1972); Richard Ellmann, Four Dubliners (London: Hamish Hamilton 1986) [Shaw, Wilde, Yeats, Joyce]; also ed., My Brother’s Keeper, by Stanislaus Joyce (1957); with Ellsworth Mason, The Critical Writings of James Joyce (1967); The Selected Letters of James Joyce (1975); 'The Uses of Decadence: Wilde, Yeats and Joyce’, in Wolfgang Zach and Heinz Kosok, eds., Literary Interrelations: Ireland, England and the world, Vol. II: Comparison and Impact (Tubingen: Guntar Narr Verlag, 1987), pp.27-40.
Participated in RTÉ talks with Seamus Heaney (who dedicated to him "The Sound of Rain" in Seeing Things, 1991).
A series of Lectures, the Richard Ellmann Memorial Lectures, are delivered in his honour at Emory University.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)