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Richard Ellmann
Richard Ellmann (1918-1987)

literary critic, biographer, journalist, literary scholar

  • Yale University, University of Dublin
Oscar Wilde
James Joyce
Yeats
Four Dubliners
Eminent domain
James Joyce's hundredth birthday, side and front views
Yeats and Joyce
Oscar Wilde at Oxford
Letters
Oscar Wilde
Golden codgers; biographical speculations
Four Dubliners--Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett
W.B. Yeats's second puberty
Literary biography
Letters of James Joyce. 2-3/3
Yeats, the man and the masks
Golden codgers
The Norton anthology of modern and contemporary poetry
The modern tradition
Edwardians and late Victorians
Ulysses on the Liffey
The identity of Yeats
A long the riverrun
Letters. 4/4
The New Oxford book of American verse
Oscar Wilde; a collection of critical essays
The Norton anthology of modern poetry
The consciousness of Joyce
Modern poems
The identity of Yeats
James Joyce Part 2
The uses of decadence
The Norton anthology of modern poetry
Yeats
Modern Poems
Joyce in love
The uses of decadence
Along the Riverrun
Omnium Gatherum
Modern poems
The modern tradition
Odysseus in Dublin
James Joyce Part 1
Oscar Wilde   Part 1 Of 2
The Oscar Wilde playing cards
Samuel Beckett, Nayman of Noland
FOUR DUBLINERS
Modern poems
James Joyce's tower
Ulysses
The Norton anthology of modern poetry
Oscar Wilde. Biographie
Wilde and the nineties
Golden Codgers
The New Oxford Book of American Verse
Henry James among the aesthetes
Ulysses the divine nobody
Oskar Uaĭlʹd
Yeats, the man and the masks
Oscar Wilde (20th Century Views)
Cuatro Dublineses
The Symbolist Movement in Literature
The backgrounds of Ulysses
Vier Dubliner
The Norton anthology of modern poetry
The modern tradition
The limits of Joyce's naturalism
The identity of Yeats. --
Oscar Wilde   Part 2 Of 2
James Joyce's tower
Edwardians and late Victorians
W.B.Yeats
Ulysses on the Liffey
The New Oxford book of American verse
Stephen Cooper
Stephen Cooper (born 1948)

literary scholar

  • University of Southern California, University of California, Irvine
Robert F. Barsky
Robert F. Barsky (born 1961)

biographer, literary theorist

  • McGill University, Brandeis University
Noam Chomsky
the Chomsky effect
Arguing and Justifying
Constructing a Productive Other
Undocumented Immigrants in an Era of Arbitrary Law
Introduction à la théorie littéraire
Zellig Harris
The Budapest poems for Yzabelle Martineau
Clamouring for Legal Protection
Hatched
Peter Nicolaisen
Peter Nicolaisen (1936-2013)

literary scholar, scholar of English

Joseph Conrad
William Faulkner
Pick a Poem. Poetry for Young People. Lernjahr 1 - 6.
Cosmopolitanism and nationhood in the age of Jefferson
Ernest Hemingway, Studien zum Bild der erzählten Welt
Die Bildlichkeit in der Dichtung Edward Taylors
Perspektiven der Interpretation
Thomas Jefferson
Maurice Stanley Friedman
Maurice Stanley Friedman (1921-2012)

philosopher, religious studies scholar, literary scholar

  • Harvard University, University of Chicago
Encounter on the Narrow Ridge
Martin Buber's life and work
Martin Buber
Touchstones of reality
To deny our nothingness
Abraham Joshua Heschel & Elie Wiesel, you are my witnesses
Dialogue and the human image
Problematic rebel: Melville, Dostoievsky, Kafka, Camus
The hidden human image
Martin Buber and the eternal
Problematic rebel
Worlds of Existentialism
A heart of wisdom
My Friendship With Martin Buber (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, & Art (Hardcover))
The Covenant of Peace
The affirming flame
Religion and psychology
The confirmation of otherness, in family, community, and society
The healing dialogue in psychotherapy
A Dialogue With Hasidic Tales
Contemporary psychology
The modern promethean
Searching in the syntax of things
The human way =
Levinas y Buber
Intercultural dialogue and the human image
Abraham Joshua Heschel--Philosopher of Wonder
Martin Buber
Richard Dove
Richard Dove (born 1938)

philologist, Germanist, literary scholar

He Was a German
Journey of No Return
Revolutionary socialism in the work of Ernst Toller
Totally un-English?
German writers and politics, 1918-39
Writing in the margin
J. P. Stern
J. P. Stern (1920-1991)

Germanist, literary scholar, linguist, philosopher, translator, historian, man of letters

  • University of Cambridge
Hitler
The World of Franz Kafka
The World of Franz Kafka
Friedrich Nietzsche
A study of Nietzsche
Idylls & realities
Nietzsche
On realism
Thomas Mann
International gas trade in Europe
The heart of Europe
The dear purchase
Re-interpretations
The mind of Nietzsche
Thomas Mann
London German Studies (Publications)
London German Studies III (Publications of the Institute of Germanic Studies, Vol 38)
Benito Prez Galds Fortunata And Jacinta
Re-interpretations
Ernst Jünger
Lichtenberg
A study of Nietzsche
A Study of Nietzsche
History and allegory in Thomas Mann's 'Doktor Faustus'
Lichtenberg
Ernst Jünger
Lichtenberg: a doctrine of scattered occasions
Nietzsche
Ernst Jünger, a writer of our times
Über Literatur und Ideologie
Re-interpretations: seven studies in nineteenth-century German literature
Thomas Mann
Nietzsche on Tragedy
Re-interpretations
Thomas Mann
Nichʻe
Re-interpretations
Ernst Junger
John Pentland Mahaffy
John Pentland Mahaffy (1839-1919)

historian, classical scholar, classical philologist, literary scholar, translator, composer, man of letters

  • Trinity College Dublin
Rambles and studies in Greece
A history of classical Greek literature
The progress of Hellenism in Alexander's Empire
Social life in Greece from Homer to Menander
An epoch in Irish history
A History of Classical Greek Literature
Twelve lectures on primitive civilizations, and their physical conditions
Descartes
Social Life in Greece from Homer to Menander
Twelve lectures on primitive civilizations and their physical conditions: (Delivered at the ..
An Epoch in Irish History: Trinity College, Dublin, Its Foundation and Early ..
Twelve Lectures on Primitive Civilizations, and Their Physical Conditions
Kant's critical philosophy for English readers
Old Greek education
An Epoch in Irish History: Trinity College, Dublin, Its Foundation and Early Fortunes, 1591-1660
The Greek world under Roman sway
The silver age of the Greek world
Greek life and thought
An epoch in Irish history
Alexander's empire
Sketches from a tour through Holland & Germany
What have the Greeks done for modern civilisation?
Social Life In Greece
A history of Egypt under the Ptolemaic dynasty
Problems in Greek history
The Empire of Alexander the Great
A survey of Greek civilization
Descartes
The Greek World Under Roman Sway
The principles of the art of conversation
The Silver Age Of The Greek World
The Progress Of Hellenism In Alexander's Empire
The story of Alexander's empire
What Have The Greeks Done For Modern Civilisation? The Lowell Lectures Of 1908-09
Greek Life and Thought
Prolegomena to ancient history
Greek life and thought from the death of Alexander to the Roman conquest
Social life in Greece from Homer to Menander
Greek pictures
Twelve lectures on primitive civilizations, and their physical conditions
Alexander's empire
Greek antiquities
Rambles and studies in Greece
A history of classical Greek literature
Alexander's empire
Old Greek life
What have the Greeks done for modern civilization?
The decay of modern preaching
Greek life and thought
Greek life and thought
Greek pictures, drawn with pen and pencil
Rambles and studies in Greece
Rambles and studies in Greece
The empire of the Ptolemies
A history of classical Greek literature
The Flinders Petrie papyri
A survey of Greek civilization
The post-assaying found on dated pieces of plate in the collection of Trinity college, Dublin
Classical antiquities
Greek life and thought from the age of Alexander to the Roman conquest
Greek life and thought
What have the Greeks done for modern civilisation?
Social life in Greece from Homer to Menander
An address on education
Rambles and studies in Greece
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcriptions, commentaries and index
A history of classical Greek literature
Social life in Greece from Homer to Menander
The progress of Hellenism in Alexander's Empire
The progress of Hellenism in Alexander's Empire
Antiguedades griegas
A history of classical Greek literature
What have the Greeks done for modern civilization?
Euripides
Social life in Greece
Social life in Greece from Homer to Meander
The plate in Trinity College, Dublin
Old Greek education
Greek antiquites
Gurdjieff
On the numerical symbols used by the Greek historians
The empire of the Ptolemies
The Flinders Petrie papyri
Descartes
A history of Egypt under the Ptolemaic dynasty
Rambles and studies in Greece
An epoch in Irish history
Social life in Greece from Homer to Menander
What have the Greeks done for modern civilisation?
Descartes
Greek antiquities
Social life in Greece from Homer to Menander
Descartes
The principles of the art of conversation