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Edmund Wilson ( May 8, 1895 - June 12 1972) was an American writer, noted chiefly for his literary criticism. He was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, and educated at Princeton. He began his writing career as a reporter for the New York Sun, and served in the army during the First World War. He was the managing editor of Vanity Fair in 1920 and 1921, and later served on the staffs of the New Republic and The New Yorker.Axel's Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (1931) was a sweeping survey of SymbolismFor an account of the late 19th-century movement in poetry and the arts, known as Symbolism see symbolism (arts). Symbolism is the systematic use of symbols to represent or allude to something. In the most literal sense, all language is symbolic. In a nar and Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud ( October 20, 1854 November 10, 1891) was a French poet. Arthur Rimbaud was born into the rural middle class of Charleville (now part of Charleville-Mezieres) in the Ardennes departement in northeastern France. As a boy Rimbaud was a restle, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (author of Axel), W. B. Yeats, Paul ValéryPaul Valery ( October 30, 1871 July 20, 1945) was a French author and poet of the Symbolist school. He was born in Sete, Herault. Living in Paris from 1892 onwards, he produced nothing for a twenty-year period, eventually breaking his silence in 1917 with, T. S. EliotThomas Stearns Eliot ( September 26, 1888 January 4, 1965), was a major Modernist Anglo-American poet, dramatist, and literary critic. Life and work Eliot was born into a prominent Unitarian Saint Louis, Missouri family; his fifth cousin, Tom Eliot, was C, Marcel ProustValentin-Louis-Georges-Eugene-Marcel Proust ( July 10, 1871 November 18, 1922) was a French intellectual, novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of In Search of Lost Time la recherche du temps perdu also translated previously as Remembran, James JoyceJames Augustine Aloysius Joyce ( February 2, 1882 January 13, 1941) was an expatriate Irish writer and poet, and is widely considered one of the most significant writers of the 20th century. He is best known for his short story collection Dubliners ( 1914, and Gertrude Stein. Wilson was interested in modern culture as a whole, and many of his writings go beyond the realm of pure literary criticism. In his book To the Finland Station , he studied the course of European socialism, culminating in the arrival of Lenin at the Finland Station of Saint Petersburg to lead the Bolshevik Revolution. Wilson's early works are heavily influenced by the ideas of Freud and Marx, reflecting his deep interest in their work.
He was a close friend of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and edited his final book for posthumous publication, and also a friend of Vladimir Nabokov, with whom he corresponded extensively and whose writing he introduced to Western audiences. His wife, Mary McCarthy , was also well-known for her literary criticism, and they co-operated on numerous works before their divorce.
Wilson's critical works help foster public appreciation for U.S. novelists Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, and Fitzgerald.
Wilson, Edmund
Wilson, Edmund
Wilson, Edmund
Wilson, Edmund
