Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Richard Ellman

Born: March 15, 1918
Died: May 13, 1987 (aged 69)
Bio: Richard David Ellmann was a prominent American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats. He won the U.S.
Known for:
- James Joyce (1959)
- Oscar Wilde: Biographie (1987)
- Yeats: The Man And The Masks (1948)
- Four Dubliners (1987)
- The Norton anthology of modern poetry (1973)