Edmund Wilson, one hundred years on.(Books)(On Books)

The Washington Times | November 16, 1997| | Copyright

What strikes one most today, thinking about Edmund Wilson who died in 1972, is how far away he already seems. He is gone, and there is there is no one out there like him at all, nor any prospect of it, and that is a great loss.

Losses, even the biggest, tend to get forgotten, and that is why one comes so gladly upon "Edmund Wilson: Centennial Reflections," a collection in book form of addresses and colloquy conducted two years ago to honor Wilson on the 100th anniversary anniversary of his birth May 8, 1895, and to reassess his relation to his own times and our ...

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