詹姆斯•乔伊斯（James Augustine Aloysius Joyce，1882—1941），爱尔兰小说家、诗人，被认为是对二十世纪现代主义文学影响最为深远的巨匠和宗师，甚至被誉为继莎士比亚后英语文学史上最伟大的作家。

詹姆斯•乔伊斯（James Augustine Aloysius Joyce，1882—1941），爱尔兰小说家、诗人，被认为是对二十世纪现代主义文学影响最为深远的巨匠和宗师，甚至被誉为继莎士比亚后英语文学史上最伟大的作家。

理查德·艾尔曼是二十世纪后半世纪西方文学界现代英语文学的主要权威之一。他就学于耶鲁大学和都柏林三一学院，曾在哈佛，耶鲁等美国许多著名大学任教。后任牛津大学英语文学讲座教授，直至1984年退休。艾尔曼一生著述编辑甚丰，他的《叶芝传》《乔伊斯传》《王尔德传》都受到西方术界的一致推崇，其中《乔伊斯传》初版之后，很快就获得普遍的赞赏，被誉为二十世纪最优秀的文学传记。 金隄，出生于1921年。1949年北京大学文科研究生毕业。曾任教于西南联大、南开大学等高校。曾任牛津大学、耶鲁大学等世界知名学府研究员或客座研究员。现任美国俄勒风大学英文系客座教授。主要学术著作有《论翻译》（与尤金·奈达合著英文著作）、《等效翻译探索》（论文集）等。主要译作有《尤利西斯》全译本等。曾获台湾读书人最佳书奖、中国作协鲁迅文学奖——全国优秀文学翻译彩虹奖（终身成就）、新闻出版署优秀外国...(展开全部)

Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material, including details of a failed love affair, a limerick about Samuel Beckett, a dream notebook, previously unknown letters, and much more.

When the complete "Letters of Emily Dickinson" appeared in three volumes in 1958, Robert Kirsch welcomed them in the "Los Angeles Times," saying "The missives offer access to the mind and heart of one of America's most intriguing literary personalities." This one-volume selection is at last available in paper-back. It provides crucial texts for the appreciation of America liter...(展开全部)

Arthur Rimbaud was one of the wildest, most uncompromising poets of his age, although his brief literary career was over by the time he was twenty-one when he embarked on a new life as a trader in Africa. This edition brings together his extraordinary poetry and more than a hundred of his letters, most of them written after he had abandoned literature. A master of French ver...(展开全部)

When the complete "Letters of Emily Dickinson" appeared in three volumes in 1958, Robert Kirsch welcomed them in the "Los Angeles Times," saying "The missives offer access to the mind and heart of one of America's most intriguing literary personalities." This one-volume selection is at last available in paper-back. It provides crucial texts for the appreciation of America liter...(展开全部)

Since Glenn Gould's death in 1982, the pianist's extraordinary talent has won a new audience through the reissue of his most famous recordings. This volume, containing over 200 of his letters, covers a wide range of Gould's artistic activities: his detailed thoughts about the piano repertoire, his rejection of the stage for record, T.V., and radio work, and his views on Beetho...(展开全部)

'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death,' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic Hyperion. Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic genius who explored the limits of the imagination and celebrated the pleasures of the senses but suffered a tragic early death. Edmund Wilson counted him as 'one of the half dozen...(展开全部)

'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death,' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic Hyperion. Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic genius who explored the limits of the imagination and celebrated the pleasures of the senses but suffered a tragic early death. Edmund Wilson counted him as 'one of the half dozen...(展开全部)