Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The Triple Thinkers: Twelve Essays on Literary Subjects contains Edmund Wilson's brillant writing on topics and authors ranging from Pushkin, A. E. Housman, Flaubert, Henry James, Marxism, poetry and more.
About the Author
Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) was a novelist, memoirist, playwright, journalist, poet, and editor but it is as a literary critic that he is most highly regarded.
Table of Contents
Mr. More and the Mithraic bull.--Is verse a dying technique?--In honor of Pushkin: I. Evgeni Onegin. II. The bronze horseman.--A.E. Housman.--The politics of Flaubert.--The ambiguity of Henry James.--John Jay Chapman.--Bernard Shaw at eighty.--Marxism and literature.--Morose Ben Jonson.--Mr. Rolfe.--The historical interpretation of literature.