Edmund Wilson
Birth date: May 08, 1895
Died: June 12, 1972
Edmund Wilson's Books
One word: bleak. All right, this book deserves more than one word. It is very much of its time (a 1960s description of, and attack on, pre-Quiet Revolution rural life in Quebec, nasty, brutal, and Church-dominated), but it also has a poetry about it. That's particularly true in the inset autobiogr...
(5-stars was too much; corrected)Wilson’s essay on the nature and origins of Modernism in literature is lucid, clear, and direct, and is worth familiarizing oneself with. After an initial, very brief discussion of Romanticism – seen as a revolt against the mechanistic rationalism of the 17th and 18...
My edition is published by Quality Paperback Book Club. A Reader's Companion is a collection of responses to both The Hobbit and TLOR when the books first were published. It includes essays by C. S. Lewis, Issac Asimov, Ursula K. Le Guin, and W. H. Auden. Some essays are favorable to the books, w...
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