Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Photographs ix
4. Preface xi
5. Richard Ellmann: The Critic as Artist xiii
6. Acknowledgements xix
7. 'Heroic Work, Heroic Being’: Avoid the Valedictory 1
8. Ellmann’s Road to Xanadu 4
9. With Dick in Dublin, 1946 13
10. Richard Ellmann’s Michaux: A Publisher’s Recollections 23
11. Richard Ellmann and Film Collaboration 29
12. The Oscar Wilde Playing Cards 31
13. Poems 33
14. Poems 35
15. ‘Oranges—Apples—Sugarsticks…’ Joycean Associations: An Interview with Richard Ellmann¹ 37
16. A Portrait of James Joyce’s Biographer 42
17. The Concept of Modernism 49
18. A Modernist Noesis 60
19. Northrop Frye and the Bible 71
20. Poe’s Angels 82
21. Isabel Archer: The New Women as American 85
22. Henry James, History, and ‘Story’ 104
23. Lytton Strachey and the Prose of Empire 122
24. The Writing “I” Has Vanished’: Virginia Woolf’s Last Short Fictions 134
25. Strange Meetings: Eliot, Pound, and Laforgue 146
26. ‘Sufficient Ground to Stand on’: Pound, Williams, and American History 153
27. D.H. Lawrence’s Physical Religion: The Debt to Tylor, Frobenius, and Nuttall 161
28. Notes on a Late Poem by Stevens 167
29. The Difficult Debut of Denis Johnston’s ‘Old Lady' 175
30. In Search of Horatio’s Identity (via Yeats) 190
31. Labour and Memory in the Love Poetry of W.B. Yeats 204
32. W.B. Yeats and That High Horse 220
33. ‘What Can I But Enumerate Old Themes’ 234
34. Yeats‘s Stream of Consciousness 253
35. Yeats: The Masker and the Masks 267
36. ‘Yours Affly, Dobbs’: George Yeats to Her Husband, Winter 1931-32 280
37. Joyce as Letter Writer 304
38. Joyce and Mythology 310
39. Mr Leopold Bloom and the Lost Vermeer 320
40. ‘There’s a Medium in All Things’: Joycean Readings 333
41. Transition Years: James Joyce and Modernist Art 351
42. ‘All That Fall’: Samuel Beckett and the Bible 360
43. Beckett’s Recent Acivities: The Liveliness of Dead Imagination 374
44. The Fatal Circle: Composition and Direction of Come and Go 384
45. The Consolation of Art: Oscar Wilde and Dante 394
46. Wilde’s Criticism: Theory and Practice 402
47. Playing in Earnest 407
48. Richard Ellmann: A Chronology 425
49. Richard Ellmann: A Bibliography 427
50. Notes 441
51. Contributors 475
52. Index 481