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Edmund Wilson Jr. (May 8, 1895 – June 12, 1972) was an American writer, literary critic and journalist. He is widely regarded as one of the most important literary critics of the 20th century. Wilson began his career as a journalist, writing for publications such as Vanity Fair and The New Yorker.
Jun 8, 2024 · Edmund Wilson (born May 8, 1895, Red Bank, New Jersey, U.S.—died June 12, 1972, Talcottville, New York) was an American critic and essayist recognized as one of the leading literary journalists of his time.
Edmund Wilson could never begin to create that kind of system. His unique success came from his unique genius. Even he couldn’t teach someone else to do what he did: absorbing books and making intelligent points about them.
Edmund Wilson has made books out of his intellectual fiction, out of the light verse he sends his friends at Christmas, out of his New Yorker her book reviews, out of his hatred...
Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) is widely regarded as the preeminent American man of letters of the twentieth century. Over his long career, he wrote for Vanity Fair, helped edit The New Republic, served as chief book critic for The New Yorker, and was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Wilson was the author of more than twenty ...
One of the nation’s foremost literary critics, Edmund Wilson grew up in New Jersey and studied at Princeton University. He worked as managing editor of Vanity Fair, associate editor of the New Republic, and book reviewer for the New Yorker.
Edmund Wilson, (born May 8, 1895, Red Bank, N.J., U.S.—died June 12, 1972, Talcottville, N.Y.), U.S. critic and essayist. He attended Princeton University and initially worked as a reporter and magazine editor.
Dec 28, 2015 · “A history of man’s ideas and imaginings in the setting of the conditions which have shaped them”: this was Edmund Wilson’s ideal of literary criticism when he published Axel’s Castle (1931), the study of Yeats, Stein, Joyce, and other modernists that established him as an essential figure in American letters.
Literary scholar Lewis M. Dabney discussed his new book,"Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005). One of the early 20th century's most respected men of letters, Wilson (1895-1972) stood at the center of the American cultural scene from the Jazz Age through the McCarthy era.
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May 21, 2018 · Edmund Wilson. The American critic Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) pursued an independent course that secured him respect and eminence. Edmund Wilson was born in Red Bank, N.J., on May 8, 1895, the son of a railroad lawyer.
