... a farmer" and lacked time for serious work, having only “between six in the morning and quarter of nine to write." On his part Dos noted that when “the Talcottville Squire" visited "Spence's Point" he showed no interest in farming.
remember introducing Thomas Mann up here during the war . It was an anti - Fascist rally . Mann described , in private conversation , A Farewell to Arms as a perfect lyric book . I've always considered Cat Barkley as just a sofa pillow ...
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Daniel Aaron • Paul Berman • David Bradley • David Bromwich • Lewis M. Dabney • Andrew Delbanco • Morris Dickstein EDMUND WILSON CENTENNIAL REFLECTIONS Edited by Lewis M. Dabney Edmund Wilson helped shape American ...
In the course of a career that spanned five decades, Edmund Wilson's literary output was impressive. His life's work includes five volumes of poetry, two works of fiction, thirteen plays,...
Leonard Kriegel examines Wilson’s principal nonfiction works in depth: Axel’s Castle, which he finds a classic in its own right; To the Finland Station, which he holds to be Wilson’s...
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
A Life in Literature Lewis M. Dabney ... 93 “does not ... life”: Ibid., 29. ... 94 “need for romance ... sexual expression”: Judith Farr, The Life and Art of Elinor Wylie (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983), 6.
Three weeks later Wilson told the California writer Upton Sinclair about her death as matter-of-factly as he had previously told Tate about his marriage: “My wife was killed in Santa Barbara last September by falling down a flight of ...
Rich with historical and cultural value, these works are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
Edmund Wilson: A Study of Literary Vocation in Our Time
This pioneering life of Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) completes the trilogy on modern American writers that Jeffrey Meyers began with his biographies of Hemingway and Fitzgerald.