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
The devils and Canon Barham.--Two neglected American novelists: Henry B. Fuller; the art of making it flat. Harold Frederic, the expanding upstater.--How not to be bored by Maurice Baring.--The aftermath of Mencken.--An effort at self-revelation.--The Waste land in dâeshabillâe.--Baldini: a memoir and a collaboration with Edwin O'Connor.--The fruits of the MLA.--The monsters of Bomarzo.