Oscar Wilde: A Collection of Critical Essays

by Richard Ellmann

Critiques from famous critics and authors on the works of the controversial and popular writer

180 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1970

About the author

Richard David Ellmann was an American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats. He won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction for James Joyce (1959), one of the most acclaimed literary biographies of the 20th century. Its 1982 revised edition won James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Ellmann was a liberal humanist, and his academic work focuses on the major modernist writers of the 20th century.

Reviews

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

As with any collection of essays - especially on a literary topic - some were good, some not so. I got this one to read after reading Moises Kaufmann's brilliant Gross Indecency. Upon looking at the card in the back of the book (from a library) I realized that I had indeed read this title about 25 years ago (or at least I checked it out - I don't remember much from it).