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American Men of Letters
Arvin, Newton | July 17, 1943 issue

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One has always wished that writer Edmund Wilson would do more with American literature than he has ever done: there are subjects there which he has never dealt with in his published criticism but which would lend themselves wonderfully to that admirable method of his, that method as of a Sainte-Beuve who has understood Sigmund Freud or a George Brandes who has understood philosopher Karl Marx. What he has made of writers like James and Edith Wharton exacerbates one's impatience to know what he would make of Edgar Poe or Herman Melville, of Henry Adams or Mark Twain.

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LITERATURE; AUTHORS; WILSON, Edmund, 1895-1972; FREUD, Sigmund, 1856-1939; BRANDES, Georg Morris Cohen, 1842-1927; WHARTON, Edith, 1862-1937; POE, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
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