Quote of the day
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained obscure because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort.
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)







