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...
29 KB (3,183 words) - 18:48, 9 September 2024
Edmund Wilson (1895–1972) was an American writer and critic. Other people with the name include: Edmund Wilson (physician) (1583–1633), British physician...
454 bytes (83 words) - 19:57, 11 January 2019
The Great Gatsby (redirect from George Wilson (Gatsby))
effectively vanished. The tireless promotional efforts of literary critic Edmund Wilson, who was Fitzgerald's Princeton classmate and his close friend, led...
161 KB (16,953 words) - 03:29, 25 September 2024
attended Princeton University where he befriended future literary critic Edmund Wilson. Owing to a failed romantic relationship with Chicago socialite Ginevra...
178 KB (19,301 words) - 21:41, 24 September 2024
Edmund Beecher Wilson (October 19, 1856 – March 3, 1939) was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist. He wrote one of the most influential textbooks...
12 KB (1,149 words) - 09:17, 13 September 2024
Edmund Wilson MD FRCP (1583 – September 1633) was a Canon of Windsor from 1616 to 1617 and a physician. He was the son of William Wilson, Canon of Windsor...
1 KB (161 words) - 20:35, 22 November 2022
Edmund Wilson Sr. (December 15, 1863 – May 15, 1923) was an American lawyer who served as the Attorney General of New Jersey from 1908 until 1914. He...
5 KB (554 words) - 21:58, 29 July 2024
Acting of History (1940) is a book by American critic and historian Edmund Wilson. The work presents the history of revolutionary thought and the birth...
6 KB (616 words) - 20:12, 21 April 2024
American cardiologist Edmund Spenser (1552–1599), English poet Edmund Wilson (1895–1972), American writer and literary critic Edmund, an antagonist in the...
8 KB (853 words) - 15:03, 8 February 2024
Edmund Wilson House is a historic home located at Talcottville in Lewis County, New York. It was built over a four-year period starting in 1789 and is...
2 KB (131 words) - 16:58, 12 October 2022
published posthumously under this title, as prepared by his friend Edmund Wilson, a critic and writer. According to Publishers Weekly, the novel is "generally...
15 KB (1,844 words) - 10:36, 21 August 2024
Edward Osborne Wilson ForMemRS (June 10, 1929 – December 26, 2021) was an American biologist, naturalist, ecologist, and entomologist known for developing...
80 KB (7,788 words) - 09:16, 13 September 2024
H. Auden and Naomi Mitchison on its publication, though the critic Edmund Wilson attacked it in a review entitled "Oo, Those Awful Orcs!". The two flashback...
33 KB (3,791 words) - 15:30, 4 August 2024
revised his second novel based on editorial suggestions from his friend Edmund Wilson and his editor Max Perkins. When reviewing the manuscript, Perkins commended...
42 KB (4,718 words) - 10:47, 19 August 2024
novel have been the source of negative critical reaction. For example, Edmund Wilson, in a tepid review, noted the encumbrance of "a strange atmosphere of...
25 KB (2,965 words) - 20:37, 21 September 2024
critic Edmund Wilson posited that the ghosts were hallucinations of the governess, who he suggested was sexually repressed. As evidence, Wilson points...
50 KB (5,760 words) - 15:16, 20 September 2024
Imaginative Literature of 1870–1930 is a 1931 book of literary criticism by Edmund Wilson on the symbolist movement in literature. It includes a brief overview...
1 KB (131 words) - 09:37, 29 September 2024
activist, best known for her novel The Group, her marriage to critic Edmund Wilson, and her storied feud with playwright Lillian Hellman. McCarthy was...
23 KB (2,421 words) - 04:52, 4 August 2024
example, soon after the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls novelist Edmund Wilson (1955) suggested that Jesus may have studied with the Essenes, followed...
32 KB (4,271 words) - 14:18, 18 August 2024
to Ellerslie in Wilmington, Delaware, in March 1927. Literary critic Edmund Wilson, recalling a party at the Fitzgerald home in Edgemoor, Delaware, in...
126 KB (14,707 words) - 03:21, 25 September 2024
Literary critics have praised Chesnut's diary—the influential writer Edmund Wilson termed it "a work of art" and a "masterpiece" of the genre — as the...
19 KB (2,462 words) - 14:15, 10 September 2024
wilfully difficult. Edmund Wilson, being one of the critics who praised Eliot, called him "one of our only authentic poets". Wilson also pointed out some...
98 KB (11,683 words) - 20:10, 12 September 2024
New York: Macaulay Company, 1927. Print. Edmund Wilson story "Galahad" included. Story reprinted in E. Wilson, Galahad / I Thought of Daisy, NY, Noonday...
29 KB (4,031 words) - 04:23, 25 September 2024
so often somebody reprises Edmund Wilson's famous put-down of detective novels, 'Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?' Wilson regarded the genre as terminally...
14 KB (1,720 words) - 18:44, 23 September 2024
gave an editorial board of four to eight members. Walter Lippmann, Edmund Wilson, and Robert Morss Lovett, among others, served on this board at various...
61 KB (6,174 words) - 16:52, 19 September 2024
Nabokov and Edmund Wilson began in 1965. After a twenty-five-year friendship which was at times strained due to Nabokov's disdain for Wilson's political...
64 KB (7,852 words) - 13:28, 6 July 2024
literary figures, including Miller, John Steinbeck, Antonin Artaud, Edmund Wilson, Gore Vidal, James Agee, James Leo Herlihy, and Lawrence Durrell. Her...
39 KB (4,599 words) - 13:33, 29 September 2024
regarded during much of her lifetime, with the prominent literary critic Edmund Wilson calling her "one of the only poets writing in English in our time who...
49 KB (5,414 words) - 00:41, 30 September 2024
1959, a decade after her death, Zelda's friend and literary critic Edmund Wilson wrote in The New Yorker magazine that readers should not infer too much...
30 KB (3,369 words) - 21:17, 11 September 2024
Hemingway's writing style attracted attention, with literary critic Edmund Wilson saying it was "of the first distinction"; the 1925 edition of In Our...
42 KB (5,703 words) - 02:57, 23 May 2024