Richard Ellmann

Oscar Wilde's reputation has shifted dramatically during the twentieth century from outcast in the wake of his trials for homosexual offences, to martyr to the gay cause in the 1980s and '90s, to important figure in the history of writing in English. Ruth Robbins introduces Wilde through a focus on his manipulations of genre and sets Wilde's life and work in its literary and cultural context.

An anthology of over 1580 poems by 180 British and American poets, from Walt Whitman through the 1980s.

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

The career and accomplishments of the brilliant writer whose war against the Establishment ended with his imprisonment and disgrace.

This is the first full biographyt of James Joyce since Richard Ellmann's scholarly work, published in 1959.