EDMUND WILSON: A LIFE IN LITERATURE

The Village Voice | September 7, 2005| | Copyright

Appetite for instruction: The hungry mind of Edmund Wilson EDMUND WILSON: A LIFE IN LITERATURE By Lewis M. Dabney Farrar, Straus andGiroux, 6o4pp. $30

SHOW ME THE BUNNY

To call Edmund Wilson the greatest American critic doesn "t begin to hint at the breadth of his achievement. His passions included modernist literature, politics, the Civil War, the ancient Middle East, and American Indians. He wrote good fiction, boring plays, scintillating journals, and essays on everything from his Princeton classmate F. Scott Fitzgerald to the tyranny of the Internal Revenue Service. Among his essential ...

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