The Boston Globe, April 5th, 1989
a long the riverrun. Selected Essays, by Richard Ellmann. Knopf. 277 pp. $21.95. "In contemplating the poetry written by executives of large insurance companies, it is hard not to be curious about their treatment of the great fact of death upon which their ample livelihood depends." That sentence, prelude to an incisive explication of Wallace Stevens' poem, "The Emperor of Ice Cream," illustrates one of the reasons why this posthumous collection of Richard Ellmann's essays is so joyful. To be sure, the collection of 20 essays is sloppily proofread and the thematic relationship of the writers E...
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