Contents -- Photographs -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION. RICHARD ELLMANN: THE CRITIC AS ARTIST -- 'HEROIC WORK, HEROIC BEING': AVOID THE VALEDICTORY -- ELLMANN'S ROAD TO XANADU -- WITH DICK IN DUBLIN, 1946 -- RICHARD ELLMANN'S MICHAUX: A PUBLISHER'S RECOLLECTIONS -- RICHARD ELLMANN AND FILM COLLABORATION -- THE OSCAR WILDE PLAYING CARDS -- POEMS -- POEM -- 'ORANGES-APPLES-SUGARSTICKS ...' JOYCEAN ASSOCIATIONS: AN INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD ELLMANN -- A PORTRAIT OF JAMES JOYCE'S BIOGRAPHER -- THE CONCEPT OF MODERNISM -- A MODERNIST NOESIS -- NORTHROP FRYE AND THE BIBLE -- POE'S ANGELS -- ISABEL ARCHER: THE NEW WOMAN AS AMERICAN -- HENRY JAMES, HISTORY, AND 'STORY' -- LYTTON STRACHEY AND THE PROSE OF EMPIRE -- THE WRITING "I" HAS VANISHED': VIRGINIA WOOLF'S LAST SHORT FICTIONS -- STRANGE MEETINGS: ELIOT, POUND, AND LAFORGUE -- 'SUFFICIENT GROUND TO STAND ON': POUND, WILLIAMS, AND AMERICAN HISTORY -- D.H. LAWRENCE'S PHYSICAL RELIGION: THE DEBT TO TYLOR, FROBENIUS, AND NUTTALL -- NOTES ON A LATE POEM BY STEVENS -- THE DIFFICULT DEBUT OF DENIS JOHNSTON'S 'OLD LADY' -- IN SEARCH OF HORATIO'S IDENTITY (VIA YEATS) -- LABOUR AND MEMORY IN THE LOVE POETRY OF W.B. YEATS -- W.B. YEATS AND THAT HIGH HORSE -- 'WHAT CAN I BUT ENUMERATE OLD THEMES' -- YEATS'S STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS -- YEATS: THE MASKER AND THE MASKS -- YOURS AFFLY, DOBBS': GEORGE YEATS TO HER HUSBAND, WINTER 1931-32 -- JOYCE AS LETTER WRITER -- JOYCE AND MYTHOLOGY -- MR LEOPOLD BLOOM AND THE LOST VERMEER -- THERE'S A MEDIUM IN ALL THINGS': JOYCEAN READINGS -- TRANSITION YEARS: JAMES JOYCE AND MODERNIST ART -- 'ALL THAT FALL': SAMUEL BECKETT AND THE BIBLE -- BECKETT'S RECENT ACTIVITIES: THE LIVELINESS OF DEAD IMAGINATION -- THE FATAL CIRCLE: COMPOSITION AND DIRECTION OF COME AND GO -- THE CONSOLATION OF ART: OSCAR WILDE AND DANTE -- WILDE'S CRITICISM: THEORY AND PRACTICE -- PLAYING IN EARNEST.

Richard Ellmann: A Chronology -- Richard Ellmann: A Bibliography -- Notes -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.