Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
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)