Background
Ellmann, Richard was born on March 15, 1918 in Highland Park, Michigan, United States. Son of James Isaac and Jeanette (Barsook) Ellmann.
( The definitive biography of William Butler Yeats The ...)
The definitive biography of William Butler Yeats The most influential poet of his age, Yeats eluded the grasp of many who sought to explain him. In this classic critical examination of the poet, Richard Ellmann strips away the masks of his subject: occultist, senator of the Irish Free State, libidinous old man, and Nobel Prize winner.
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Ellmann, Richard was born on March 15, 1918 in Highland Park, Michigan, United States. Son of James Isaac and Jeanette (Barsook) Ellmann.
Bachelor, Yale University, 1939. Master of Arts, Yale University, 1941. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1947.
BLitt, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 1947. Master of Arts, Oxford University, England, 1970. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Northwestern University, 1980.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), National University Ireland, 1976. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Emory University, 1979. Doctor of Letters (honorary), McGill University, 1986.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Gothenburg, 1978. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Boston College, 1979. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Rochester, 1981.
Instructor, Harvard University, 1942-1943, 47-48;
Briggs-Copeland assistant Professor of English composition, Harvard University, 1948-1951;
Professor of English, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1951-1964;
Franklin Bliss Snyder professor, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1964-1968;
Professor of English, Yale University, 1968-1970;
Goldsmiths'Professor of English literature, University of Oxford, England, 1970-1984. Frederick Ives Carpenter visiting professor University of Chicago, 1959, 67, 75-77. Woodruff professor Emory University, 1982-1987.
Member United States-United Kingdom Ednl. Commission, 1970-1985.
( The definitive biography of William Butler Yeats The ...)
(In these brief, elegant essays RIchard Ellmann illumines ...)
(A new and illuminating critique of the narrative, ethical...)
(Examines the lives and careers of four distinguished Iris...)
(THE IDENTITY OF YEATS, RICHARD ELLMANN, 1964 SECOND EDITION.)
(Biography, Irish Studies & Literature, Literary Studies)
(The Consciousness of Joyce 150 pp. The Consciousness of J...)
(The man and the masks)
Served with Office of Strategic Services, United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1946. Fellow American Academy and Institute, British Academy, Royal Society Literature. Member English Institute (chairman 1961-1962), Modern Language Association (executive council 1961-1965, member editorial committee publications 1968-1973), Elizabethan Club, Phi Beta Kappa, Chi Delta Theta, Signet, Athenaeum.
Married Mary Donahue, August 12, 1949. Children: Stephen Jonathan, Maud Esther, Lucy Elizabeth.