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| | The New Yorker: The Critics: A Critic At Large |
 | | Wilson thought that literature is determined by history and by psychology: that was always, to use the journalistic term, the hook in his pieces. | | | Wilson took literature as it is—that is, he took what the writer was saying to be what the writer was saying, and not something that required extra-literary equipment to decipher. | | | Wilson maintained this faith in the literary, though, because he meant his criticism to have, itself, the force of literature. |
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| | TAP: Vol 7, Iss. 29. The Other Edmund Wilson. Scott Stossel. |
| | Before she picked up the meat, she would always take off her glasses so that she would not be able to see the maggots; but it sometimes made the boy so sick to look at this offal and smell it that he could not bring himself to eat. | | | But this has not prevented writers and scholars from trying in recent years to elevate Wilson to what they claim is his rightful status as this century's preeminent American man of letters. | | | We, perhaps no less than Wilson, inhabit a system in which everyone is out for himself and devil take the hindmost. |
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| | 2) Edmund, Saint, 1170?-1240, English churchman, archbishop of Canterbury. | | | ...Mortimer, Sir Edmund de, 1376-1409, English nobleman; youngest son of Edmund de Mortimer, 3d earl of March. | | | In 1398 when young Edmund, the 5th earl, nephew of Sir... |
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| | Amazon.com: Books: To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History (New York Review Books Classics) |
| | Edmund Wilson has suffered the same fate as the book, which is equally as curious. | | | Wilson starts in on Michelet and the history of the historians of the French revolution, and without really being clear what he's doing he drags the reader into the mindset of revolution and reaction that was current at Michelet's time. | | | Wilson's mastery of prose, artistry of language and clarity of vision draws you into the lives of his subjects so you feel you're there. |
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| | Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature by Lewis M. Dabney, reviewed by The New Republic ... |
| | Born just inside the nineteenth century, in 1895, Wilson was a man both of that epoch and of the eighteenth century, and in some ways he remained fiercely loyal to his background. | | | Wilson was right about the awkwardness of Nabokov's literal English version -- though it has many superb and canny triumphs -- but he unwisely presumed to set Nabokov straight about his "ineptitudes" in Russian. | | | And the permanent psychological damage which he had inflicted upon himself by beating his head against the gilt of the Gilded Age was as much one of the scars of the heroism of his passionate and expiatory nature as the hand he had burnt off in his youth. |
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| | Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature - New York Magazine Book Review |
| | Wilson, glowering, looks Dabney up and down and declares that the younger man should be writing his own books, “instead of annotating mine.” The self-effacing Dabney does not record his response. | | | Edmund Wilson’s brilliance won him untold love and admiration, but for him, nothing beat a good book. | | | Poor Edmund Wilson, everyone is always saying: He loved literature more than he loved life. |
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| | The Edmund Wilson centenary by Hilton Kramer |
| | Wilson’s life, apart from his writing and the intellectual labor that went into it, just wasn’t that interesting. | | | Meyers correctly reminds us in the preface to Edmund Wilson: A Biography, this happens to be an approach to literature that Wilson himself explicitly condemned in the course of his own career. | | | Meyers again puts the matter exactly right when he observes that “for Wilson, as for Pepys and Boswell, no seduction was complete until he had recorded its details in his diary.” Yet I doubt if even Elizabeth Hardwick would want to claim that Wilson’s diaries are in a class with either Pepys’s or Boswell’s. |
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| | Commentary Magazine - The Twenties, by Edmund Wilson |
| | ...Wilson had a novelist's eye for detail, and could render a casual remark or scene with such muted effectiveness that it seldom required commentary... | | | ...While waiting for this epoch to arrive, Edmund Wilson was, like everyone else, confined to the realm of human history, a world that often seemed to him "too small, its phenomena too petty and imperfect... | | | ...Ingeniously, he identifies Wilson not with Philoctetes himself, but with Neoptolemus, the youth sent to steal the archer's bow, who becomes converted to Philoctetes, a collaborator in his exile... |
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| | Amardeep Singh: Edmund Wilson got it right, most of the time |
| | Wilson knows where Eliot is coming from, and rejects the measure nevertheless: | | | He does praise Millay lavishly, and is significantly ahead of the curve in doing so; after her initial notoriety in the 1910s and 20s, Millay was considered a second-rate writer until only very recently. | | | More specifically, Eliot had claimed that liberalism, as a weak ideology, was insufficient to counter the ideologies of fascism or communism (Eliot would only spell this out directly in The Idea of a Christian Society, which would be published a decade later). |
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| | The New York Review of Books: Edmund Wilson |
| | Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) is widely regarded as the preeminent American man of letters of the twentieth century. | | | Wilson combines his polymathic talents as critic, journalist, historian, and novelist, making this one of the greatest works by twentieth-century America's greatest man of letters. | | | March 3, 1977: Edmund Wilson: Letters to John Dos Passos |
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| | Jonathan Yardley |
| | He tells it conscientiously and, as mentioned above, dutifully, but the net effect of Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature is to leave one wondering why, precisely, books such as this are written. | | | Our curiosity about the innermost sources of any writer's work is understandable and legitimate, but page after page of drunken bouts and sexual conquests really tell us little except that this is a man we care to meet only in the words he wrote. | | | The rest of the story that Dabney tells does not. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/01/AR2005090101715.html
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| | village voice > books > Lewis M. Dabney's Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature by Allen Barra |
| | Lewis M. Dabney's Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature is the most comprehensive deep-dish study of the man. Born and raised in Red Bank, New Jersey, Wilson was educated in both the Scriptures (his mother was a proud descendant of Cotton Mather) and the classics. | | | A Life in Literature humanizes Wilson without trivializing him. | | | The great interpreter of Joyce and Eliot liked to relax with Bing Crosby records. |
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971, Revised and Expanded Edition |
| | It really goes without saying that Wilson succeeeded only in making a titanic fool of himself -- that is, if you realize that VN was a native speaker of Russian, steeped in the Russian language and Russian culture, and perhaps the greatest Russian author of the twentieth century. | | | Wilson's attempt to "debate" VN is just as silly as, say, myself deciding to "debate" French literature with Marcel Proust! | | | Much cheerier to go back to Wilson's analyses of writing and writers, which, as Menand says, illuminate "as though a thousand watt bulb" were shone upon the work. |
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| | Edmund Wilson, the Man in Letters |
| | He is the author of Edmund Wilson and several other works of criticism. | | | She is the author of Edmund Wilson: A Critic for Our Time. | | | These letters complete the picture of Wilson the man, offering unguarded moments and flinty opinions that enrich our understanding of a complex and troubled personality. |
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| | Detective Fiction and Edmund Wilson: A Rejoinder |
| | In all three columns, however, Wilson confesses a great weakness for Sherlock Holmes stories and, for him, Moriarity was a wonderful arch villain resembling no normal person. | | | This final contradiction is followed by a loving recounting of the great Doyle stories literature on a humble but not ignoble level and the admirable settings. | | | Unfortunately he may have influenced the large readership of the New Yorker which is why it is important to point out the serious flaws in the articles and arguments. |
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| | Commentary Magazine - Edmund Wilson's Civil War |
| | ...Wilson is at once fascinated and repelled by that dark crossroads in the human soul where ambition and a sense of destiny, sometimes so nobly and so destructively, meet... | | | ...WILSON ADMIRES HIS Romans, but there is a remarkable range of sympathy and understanding for those others who never achieved the Roman virtues... | | | ...Wilson says of Grierson, that, in The Valley of Shadows, it is almost as though "the experience had imposed itself on him, that a great moment of history has lived itself through him... |
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| | Edmund Wilson Essay Tolkien |
| | W.H. Auden, who knew genius when he saw it, declared Lord of the Rings 'a masterpiece' while Edmund Wilson... | | | Tom Shippey writes in Tolkien: Author of the Century that "In 1956 Edmund Wilson, then doyen of American... | | | Understanding The Lord Of The Rings - Book @ Christianbook.com |
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| | Edmund Wilson; a bibliography (Fugitive bibliographies) |
| | I met Edmund Wilson at his home on Cape Cod shortly after I published the book. | | | Dan Young, who was also series editor for FUGITIVE BIBLIOGRAPHIES of which my book formed a part, passed on to his reward in 1997. | | | Nonetheless, the geometrically expanding range of information still makes a bibliographer's job challenging. |
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| | Edmund Wilson Papers |
| | Printed card: “Edmund Wilson regrets that it is impossible for him to: Read manuscripts, write articles or books to order, do editorial work....” | | | 2:6 Mimeograph ccTMs handouts, with AMs notes in Wilson’s hand, for a Comparative Literature course “The Language of Literature,” which taught at Harvard, 1959-1960, class size about 10 students. | | | “Archetype and Charisma: Notes on the Viability of the Theatre Art, U.S. 1960s.” Hand-made book with TMs text and caricatures in ink and ink wash. Inscribed to Edmund and Elena Wilson and signed by PH. |
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| | Edmund Wilson and American culture MetaFilter |
| | Although not without flaws, Wilson managed to read and understand a whole current in contemporary literature, digest it and catalog it, before anyone else. | | | In Donna Tartt's novel The Secret History, one of the main characters goes by the nickname "Bunny," but his given name is Edmund. | | | The book is gossipy, but great fun, and the description of Wilson's marriage to Mary McCarthy is brutal. |
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| | Living Legacies |
| | His friend Boveri, to whom Wilson dedicated his most important book, also contributed to interpreting the role of the nucleus and chromosomes. | | | It went through three editions, the last published in 1927. | | | Wilson left few notes describing his life and times. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Edmund Wilson, Our Neighbor from Talcottville |
| | Amazon.ca: Books: Edmund Wilson, Our Neighbor from Talcottville | | | Look for books like Edmund Wilson, Our Neighbor from Talcottville by subject: | | | We will notify you within 2-3 weeks if we have trouble obtaining this title. |
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| | Two of his autobiographical books, A Prelude, which deals in part with his undergraduate years, and the crusty ``reflections at sixty'' that he called A Piece of My Mind, bracket the time from his young manhood to the beginnings of his old age. | | | His friend John Dos Passos, who was well acquainted with his penchant for conversations like those recorded in the book, joshed him with ~a limerick: | | | Through nearly half a century, when not engaged with poetry, plays, and novels of his own, he devoted his energies to the reading and judging of work by others. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Edmund Wilson |
| | Wilson, Edmund (author) (1895-1972), American author and critic, regarded by many as the foremost man of letters and molder of literary taste of his... | | | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Edmund Wilson | | | Wilson, Edward Osborne (scientist), born in 1929, American evolutionary biologist, best known for his work tracing the effect of natural selection on... |
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| | Edmund Wilson |
| | Wilson was among the fortunate handful of writers who have succeeded in doing this, with books that are like bold deeds and that will live a long time after him, keeping him with us against our need. | | | Throughout his life Wilson wrote plays, novels and poems. | | | For a writer, the rarest privilege is not merely to describe his country and time but to help shape them. |
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| | The New York Review of Books: Edmund Wilson at Ease |
| | Wilson's diaries for those decades were remarkable mainly for their descriptions of his many love affairs, pursuits for which this distinguished and reputedly austere literary personage was not widely known. | | | Readers of Edmund Wilson's diaries for the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s may have regretted that in these volumes Wilson omitted sustained accounts of the literary life in which he had been immersed for thirty years, and supplied only glancing sketches of such youthful companions as John Bishop, Edna Millay, and Scott Fitzgerald. | | | Perhaps for this reason these amatory writings have not received their due, particularly the long elegiac piece on his second wife, Margaret Canby, in The Thirties. |
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| | Edmund Wilson, the Man in Letters - Review |
| | This book is a tremendous pleasure to read because Wilson is one of the great prose stylists of American letters, and few Americans have written as well about such a wide variety of subjects. | | | This structure makes Wilson’s life seem even more compartmentalized than it was. | | | Famous as he was for his insatiable intellect, he was also known for periodic enthusiasms: European and Russian literature, Civil War and Iroquois history, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and his own fiction. |
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| | Edmund Beecher Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Gilbert, S. Edmund Beecher Wilson and Frank R. Lillie and the relationship between evolution and development, Developmental Biology, Seventh edition, Sinauer | | | Wilson, is credited as America's first cell biologist, in 1898 he used the similarity in embryos to describe phylogenetic relationships, by observing spinal cleavage in molluscs, flatworms and annelids he concluded that the same organs came from the same group of cells, he concluded that all these organisms must have a common ancestor. | | | Al-Awqati, Q. Edmund Beecher Wilson: America's First Cell Biologist. |
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| | Anteroom: New Edmund Wilson Biography |
| | Although Wilson was to some a model of urbanity and intellectual control, Anais Nin found him "irrational, lustful, violent." A Seneca Indian woman whom he befriended while writing Apologies to The Iroquois was so impressed by his sincerity she offered to make him a member of the tribe and named her son for him. | | | Indeed, at times in Dabney's enormously satisfying account there seem to be several Edmund Wilsons, all of them products of a time "culturally narrower than ours," but "in some respects more literate." A Life in Literature makes one nostalgic for such a time and such a man. | | | Allen Barra, generally of Salon.com, has written a short review of the new biography Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature by Lewis M. Dabney. |
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| | Commentary Magazine - Edmund Wilson, by Jeffrey Meyers |
| | ...A BIOGRAPHY of Wilson has been long overdue-he died more than twenty years ago-and Jeffrey Meyers, a seasoned practitioner, has come up with an intelligent, wellJOHN GROSS is the author of TheRise and Fall of the Man of Letters and Shylock: A Legend and Its Legacy, among other books... | | | ...EDMUND WILSON (1895-1972) was a central figure in the literary life of his time... | | | ...WILSON'S isolationist stance was bad enough, but as a theme in his work it pales in significance next to his enthusiasm for Marx and Lenin... |
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| | TIME.com Print Page: Nation -- Edmund Wilson's Life in Letters |
| | There's an argument to be made that when a person's correspondence with one individual is extensive and interesting enough it should be published separately (as has been done with Wilson's letters to and from Vladimir Nabokov), but in a book like this it feels more distracting than enlightening to group them this way. | | | And Wilson the amateur linguist, who had a habit of sprinkling his letters with bits of Greek, Hebrew and Russian, would hardly have approved of the decision not to print his use of other languages in their original orthography. | | | This volume begins with letters that Wilson wrote to his parents while he was overseas during World War I, then divides the letters up in sections according to their recipients, and while this technique has been used before (most notably with Andrew Turnbull's edition of Fitzgerald's letters), I've never quite see the point of it. |
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| | ESR June 20, 2005 The American left: Edmund Wilson's new breed of fellow traveler |
| | For more on Edmund Wilson, read my earlier column The soul of ingratitude: Edmund Wilson at http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/1104/1104edmundwilson.htm. | | | He is Edmund Wilson with a German accent. | | | To the Finland Station is indeed an odious piece of work, in which a "civilized" man salutes the invading barbarians. |
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| | milkriverarchive: LIT: Edmund Wilson |
| | Wilson’s 1947 book, “Europe Without Baedeker,” was a collection of reports and reflections, many of which appeared first in The New Yorker. | | | This report from London, published in 1945, was the first in that series. | | | This week in the magazine and here online, Louis Menand writes about the career of Edmund Wilson. |
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| | Edmund Wilson, Half Price Books, Discount Books, Compare Book Prices, New & Used Books |
| | Edmund Wilson, Half Price Books, Discount Books, Compare Book Prices, New & Used Books | | | The Princess With the Golden Hair: Letters of Elizabeth Waugh to Edmund Wilson, 1933-1942 | | | Tell us anything good or bad about this website and we're always striving to improve this free service! |
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| | New Criterion: Letters by Dawn Powell to Edmund Wilson.@ HighBeam Research |
| | This article discusses the relationship and written correspondences between Dawn Powell and Edmund Wilson. | | | Dawn Powell and Edmund Wilson enjoyed a long and comfortable friendship from the early 1930s until Powell's death in 1965. | | | It remains unclear how and when they met --perhaps at the Brooklyn Heights home of Powell's patron, Margaret De Silver and her anarchist lover, Carlo Tresca; perhaps at what Wilson later referred to as one of Powell's own "knock down and drag out" parties. |
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| | AddALL.com - browse and compare book price: Edmund Wilson |
| | Princess With the Golden Hair: Letters of Elizabeth Waugh to Edmund Wilson, 1933-1942 | | | AddALL.com - browse and compare book price: Edmund Wilson | | | Publisher: Univ of California Pr Author: Edmund Wilson |
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| | Dabney, L.M., ed.: Edmund Wilson: Centennial Reflections. |
| | Two of his important works, the study of the Marxist intellectual tradition in To the Finland Station and of Civil War literature in Patriotic Gore, anchor the discussion in the third part. | | | "Edmund Wilson, who epitomized the man of letters for this century and who relished his role as the nation's leading literary curmudgeon and dictator, comes brilliantly to life in this wide-ranging collection of essays edited by his biographer, Lewis Dabney. | | | Assembled and edited by Lewis Dabney, this book shows new intellectual voices interacting with veterans who knew Wilson and his times. |
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| | Letras Libres: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters: Correspondence between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson: 1940-1971.(TT: ... |
| | The Nabokov-Wilson Letters: Correspondence between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson: 1940-1971.(TT: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters: Correspondence between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson: 1940-1971.)(Reseña) | | | Edmund Wilson y Vladimir Nabokov sostuvieron una larga relación amistosa que quedó para la historia de las letras gracias a la sana costumbre de escribir canas. | | | Letras Libres: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters: Correspondence between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson: 1940-1971.(TT: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters: Correspondence between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson: 1940-1971.)(Reseña)@ HighBeam Research |
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| | You can book seven days in advance and we advise early booking. | | | Leave the city centre following signs to Leeds A64. | | | You can leave your children with our qualified child care assistants whilst you use the pool or gym. |
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| | Edmund Beecher Wilson |
| | Wilson, Edmund Beecher (The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition) | | | STOWE'S DRED AND THE NARRATIVE LOGIC OF SLAVERY'S EXTENSION.(Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, "A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp") (Studies in American Fiction) | | | Related content from HighBeam Research on: Edmund Beecher Wilson |
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| | « previous more books by edmund wilson » | | | Mass Market Paperback 278 pages, 2001-02-15 - ISBN 0877457697 | | | Edmund Wilson - Farrar Straus & Giroux (T) |
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| | Edmund Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Wilson's early works are heavily influenced by the ideas of Freud and Marx, reflecting his deep interest in their work. | | | Wilson's wife, Mary McCarthy, was also well-known for her literary criticism, and they co-operated on numerous works before their divorce. | | | Wilson was interested in modern culture as a whole, and many of his writings go beyond the realm of pure literary criticism. |
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| | Edmund Wilson, Compare Book Prices & Find Cheap New, Used Books |
| | Edmund Wilson, Compare Book Prices & Find Cheap New, Used Books | | | Let us know anything you like or don't like about this website! | | | Edmund Wilson: a Biography: A Biography (Biography & Memoirs) |
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| | On Point : Edmund Wilson and the American Mind - Edmund Wilson and the American Mind |
| | Lewis M. Dabney, professor of English at The University of Wyoming, author of "Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature" | | | Edmund Wilson was the journalist and literary critic who hated 'Literary Criticism,' the beneficiary of an elite education who hated elitism, a patriot who hated jingo-ism. | | | "Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature" by Lewis M. Dabney (amazon) |
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| | Herman Muller, one of Wilson's students, described him as a kind, scrupulous, careful man who was aware that ideas were useful only when communicated properly. | | | He was good friends with Thomas Hunt Morgan who taught there, and Wilson continued to help and advise students of Bryn Mawr. | | | He also published books on cellular structure and general biology. |
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| | Christian Century: The Wilson syndrome - Edmund Wilson - Column |
| | Since Wilson's day, the secular press, usually goaded by iconoclastic writers of books that would undercut standard understandings of faith, has often suggested that religion scholars are stuffy, defensive iconodules who protect their idols. | | | SEVEN YEARS after the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, critic Edmund Wilson charged Jewish and Christian scholars with covering up the scrolls' challenges to the faith to protect their livelihoods. | | | Scholars make their livings uncovering embarrassments--that's the path to advancement, good reviews and royalties. |
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| | From Uncollected Edmund Wilson:0821411276:Wilson, Edmund:eCampus.com |
| | The editors, who recognize Wilson (1895-1972) as one of America's greatest men of letters of the twentieth century, also view his writing as a powerful antidote to late twentieth-century trends and fads and have collected his pieces here in the conviction that Wilson's writing is a permanently important model. | | | The collection is organized chronologically and leads the reader through the journeyman writing at Hill School and Princeton, the essays on literary modernism and contemporary culture written in the 1920s, the socially-focused critiques of the 1930s, and the diverse assortment of book reviews of the late period. | | | But there is another body of work - over fifty fine essays on aspects of contemporary literature and ideas - that have been scattered in a variety of magazines, including The New Yorker, The New Republic, Vanity Fair, and The Nation. |
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| | In honor of Ernest Hemingway's birthday on July 21, Edmund Wilson's defense of the author, originally published in 1927. | | | In honor of Bloomsday: Edmund Wilson's 1922 review of Ulysses. |
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