Product Description: This comprehensive anthology, edited by the acclaimed scholars of modernism, Richard Ellmann and Charles Feidelson, is arranged thematically with essential readings from the Western European tradition on: symbolism, realism, nature, cultural history, the unconscious, myth, self-consciousness, existence, and faith...read more

An interpretation of Joyce's masterpiece which illuminates its philosophical and literary significance

Product Description: BRAND NEW softcover, clean text, solid binding, NO remainders NOT ex-library slight shelfwear / storage-wear; WE SHIP FAST. Carefully packed and quickly sent. 201512164 With a penetration which is none the less acute for its being urbane and witty, Ellmann discusses examples of the use of analytic methods of biography by Sartre on Baudelaire and Genet, Erikson on Luther, and Edel on James...read more

Product Description: This anthology, devised for undergraduate poetry courses, is drawn from the grand sweep of modern verse in English from Walt Whitman to the present. The editors have selected poems that "teach" important techniques of qualities of poetry, that are particularly enjoyable or accessible, or that are so excellent that they demand inclusion in any overview of modern poetry...read more

Product Description: An anthology of poems by American poets from Taylor and Bradstreet to Plath, Ginsberg, and Ashbery, reflecting the traditions and achievements of three centuries.

Traces the literary ancestry of Ulysses and discusses Joyce's association of himself with Homer and Shakespeare and his oblique, revolutionary subversion of existing institutions

Describes the life of the Irish writer and discusses his works in light of the literary climate in which he lived (view table of contents)

Product Description: This classic study of Yeats' verse examines the poet's development of theme, symbol, style, and pattern. Through his knowledge of Yeats' life as well as his published and unpublished work, Ellmann recreates Yeats' ways of thinking, seeing, and writing and clarifies his difficult poems...read more

Examines the lives and careers of four distinguished Irish authors and analyzes the connections among them

Presents an in-depth study of the complex and tragic life of Oscar Wilde and a tribute to his inimitable wit and brilliant writings

Works by American and British writers illuminate the development of modern poetry

Examines the lives and careers of four distinguished Irish authors and analyzes the connections among them

Product Description: A splendid collection of literary essays by "the greatest biographer of the century"--The Sunday Times, London. Ellmann's Oscar Wilde was a tremendous critical success, winning both the NBCC and the Pulitzer Prize last year.

Product Description: Book by James Joyce

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Presents eighteen biographical and literary essays on Wallace Stevens, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, Washington Irving, Oscar Wilde and other notable authors

A critical biography of the great Irish poet traces his intellectual growth and relates his mystical concerns and involvement in public affairs to his poetry

Product Description: Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, William B. Yeats y Samuel Beckett abandonaron Dublin entre los 20 y los 22 anos. Dejo la formacion irlandesa alguna huella en la vidas y la obra de estos cuatro celebres dublineses que revolucionaron la literatura? El gran critico y biografo norteamericano Richard Ellmann relata episodios cruciales, poco conocidos (y escabrosos en el caso de Joyce) de sus biografias para revelarnos como el origen determino su obra, y nos descubre como en Beckett, el mas joven de los cuatro, convergen finalmente las «conexiones dublinesas»...read more

A new revision of the classic anthology presents 195 poets and 1,596 poems representing the range of English language modern and contemporary poetry.

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more