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Edmund Wilson, at last.(Book Review)
Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature, by Lewis M. Dabney (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 656 pp., $35)
THIS splendid biography of Edmund Wilson, decades in preparation, was worth waiting for. Author Lewis Dabney met Wilson during the 1960s and admires him, even to the point of identifying with his sense of being the citizen of "an older America." The biographer has done prodigious research: Here we have the great man of letters, and the man as he was. No previous biography compares to it, and none could possibly supersede it.
Dabney's title, precise and important, defines the problem for a Wilson biographer: His life was indeed a "life in literature." Dabney ...
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- Edmund Wilson: Centennial Reflections.
- Magazine article from: Commonweal Baumann, Paul December 19, 1997 700+ words
Patriotic Gore (1962), Edmund Wilson's fat, endlessly fascinating book about...American past made a large impression on me. Edmund Wilson: Centennial Reflections reminds us that Wilson's intellectual and literary journalism...
