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The Influence of Edmund Wilson

Spiller, Robert E. | February 22, 1958 issue

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The article discusses the influence of writer Edmund Wilson on United States literature. The high place of Edmund Wilson in modern American literary criticism has been sIow of recognition because he was always seemed to play the role of counselor, interpreter and friend to his fellow writers and readers rather than that of lawgiver or of chronicler. An historical critic rather than a literary historian, he has done more than anyone in his time to make the master works of his contemporaries intelligent to their own readers

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WILSON, Edmund, 1895-1972; LITERATURE; HISTORY; CRITICISM; SCHOLARS; UNITED States
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