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...Wilson wasn't just one of America's greatest literary journalists; he was a vivid chronicler of the Depression era. His best stuff appeared in The New Republic. We'll be linking to these pieces in the coming weeks, starting with his February 10, 1932,...
...what really makes a story. 5. Your ideal brain food? The capacity of great critics to inspire is often underrated. I like Edmund Wilson, W.H. Auden, Virginia Woolf and James Wood. 6. You’re proud of this accomplishment, but why? Most critics write about...
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...is fortunate for literary historians that Thornton Wilder and Edmund Wilson did not meet at the Princeton-Yale football game or, heaven forbid, in Edna St. Vincent Millay's bedroom. They were brought together instead at one of Zelda and F. Scott...
...in ideas for new systems. There’s an obscure book called “The American Earthquake,” published in 1958, which collects Edmund Wilson’s journalism from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression. Wilson, better known then and now for his essays on Yeats and...
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...of Wilson's essays and reviews from the 1920s, '30s and '40s is one of the summits of twentieth-century literary criticism. Edmund Wilson's life story is well-known from his many published journals (The Twenties through The Sixties), memoirs ("The Author...
...Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s by Edmund Wilson Edited by Lewis M Dabney The Library of America, 958 pp, $40 The academic is represented by three famed works, each an established classic of its kind: Axel's Castle (1930), about the French...
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