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DIED. Richard Ellmann, 69, scholarly author of James Joyce, the definitive biography of the Irish novelist, and the first American to become a professor of English literature at Oxford University; of pneumonia brought on by a motor-neuron ailment commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease; in Oxford, England...
...Kennedy and James MacGregor Burns on Franklin Roosevelt. The British have given us Elizabeth Jenkins on Elizabeth I, Cecil Woodham-Smith on Queen Victoria, Philip Magnus on Gladstone and Edward VII, and Robert Blake on Benjamin Disraeli. In literature there are treasures from both sides of the Atlantic. Richard Ellmann's Joyce, George Painter's Proust and Leon Edel's James are the chief prizes, but there are many other jewels, including Michael Holroyd on Lytton Strachey, Francis Steegmuller on Cocteau and Quentin Bell on Virginia Woolf. Moreover, the past year has brought a host of distinguished...
...that passes leaves one feeling less qualified to do it." But undergraduates who thronged to his celebrated lectures on Johnson at Harvard would not have been disheartened by such a modest dis claimer. Even so, Bate's biography surpasses every expectation. It is an achievement that rivals Richard Ellmann's James Joyce and Leon Edel's five-volume Henry James in force of insight if not in literary...
...Forster English traditionalist. But revolutionary potentialities excite him, as they do most of the rest of us most of the time, and this keeps him from sliding into a morass of pity for poor Carr or bourgeois stupidity. Stoppard evidently created the play out of two lines in Richard Ellmann's biography of Joyce, which mentions a certain Henry Carr of the Zurich consulate who later is mentioned unfavorably in Joyce's Ulysses. Immortalized after a fashion-the travesty of life...
Virgin or Madonna. A more complex portrait of the artist emerges from the Selected Letters of James Joyce. Biographer Ellmann has trimmed three volumes of Joyce's correspondence into a crisp, compelling narrative-and added previously suppressed letters from Joyce to his wife Nora. Visiting Dublin on business in 1909, Joyce was unhinged by the rumor (false) that Nora had been unfaithful to him during their courtship five years earlier. Back in Trieste, Nora was bewildered and shocked by Joyce's anguished accusations. When this crisis passed, the couple tried to bridge their physical and emotional separation with...