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Man of letters.(Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature)(Book Review)
Lewis M. Dabney Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 656 pages, $35
Edmund Wilson's review of T. S. Eliot's "Waste Land" appeared in The Dial one month after the poem was published. His first reading of the poem occurred on a brisk September day in 1922 on the upper deck of a Fifth Avenue bus headed for Greenwich Village. The Jazz Age was tuning up, the Village was enjoying one of its periodic Bohemian revivals, and, at twenty-seven, Wilson was on the brink of his career as one of the twentieth century's most influential American literary critics.
In his review, Wilson took careful note of the poet's enormous erudition, "piling ...
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