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Edmund Wilson

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Noun1.Edmund Wilson - United States literary critic (1895-1972)


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Edmund Wilson, America's leading young literary critic, informed Paterson that she was "the last surviving person to believe in [the] quaint old notions on which the republic was founded.
Paul Lakeland begins his review of Peter Gay's Modernism (December 19, 2008) by stating that Edmund Wilson "memorably characterized the later novels of Henry James as 'large, loose, baggy monsters.
” Perhaps the sharpest put-down comes from Edmund Wilson, who deplores the “romantic and sentimental rubbish” written about the Great Emancipator and wonders whether “the cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.
 
 
 
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