Edmund Wilson

Also, like some other original and independent scholars such as Edmund Wilson and R G Collingwood, he did not establish a significant school or following.

Club Troppo 2009

While this theory isn't true in all cases—I can't write when the two long-haired chihuahuas next door are yipping at my cats—it has enough basis in reality to have been the subject of a highly-regarded study by the eminent literary critic Edmund Wilson, The Wound and the Bow.

Writer's Block? Get Nacreous! Con Chapman 2011

Edmund Wilson wrote provocatively about James, taking him at the highest level of seriousness.

The Afterlife of the Lion Joseph Epstein 2012

As for all those Tolkien fans who liked to dress up as elves and orcs, the only explanation, spluttered Edmund Wilson in 1956, was that "Certain people . . . have a lifelong appetite for juvenile trash."

There and Back Again Tom Shippey 2012

"The Life-Giving Drop" by Ivan Turgenev on Fictionaut is an expansion and revision of a recounting of a story told by Turgenev to a child, found in Edmund Wilson's essay "Turgenev and the Life-giving Drop" which first appeared in The New Yorker in 1957 and subsequently in TURGENEV'S LITERARY REMINISCENCES Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, New York, 1958.

THE LIFE-GIVING DROP by Ivan Turgenev Rick Rofihe 2012

Her 10 books of collected reviews can be seen as a single, grandly catch-all chronicle of movies and American pop culture over four decades and an equally exhaustive record of one writer's intensely rich interior life—a work comparable in size and importance to the long shelf of Edmund Wilson's books or to fellow New Yorker writer Janet Flanner's countless, endlessly fascinating and still mostly uncollected "Paris Letters."

What She Found in the Dark Lee Sandlin 2011

Edmund Wilson: Why did you put me directly underneath Elizabeth Taylor?

Writer's Block? Get Nacreous! Con Chapman 2011

The three pieces that make up the essay, which Esquire published in 1936 and Edmund Wilson collected in 1945, are often said to have ushered in an age of confessional memoir; they are less often said to have ushered in an age of confessional memoir-bashing, though Ernest Hemingway, along with much of the literary world, considered the essay just another instance of F.

Borne Ceaselessly Into the Future Kerry Howley 2011

Who's to say that if Edmund Wilson were alive today, he wouldn't have a thumbnail photo of his dog to identify himself and use a frowny-face emoticon to express his displeasure with a novel?

Anis Shivani: Iowa Writers' Workshop Graduate Spills It All: Interview with John McNally, Author of "After the Workshop" 2010

Who's to say that if Edmund Wilson were alive today, he wouldn't have a thumbnail photo of his dog to identify himself and use a frowny-face emoticon to express his displeasure with a novel?

Anis Shivani: Iowa Writers' Workshop Graduate Spills It All: Interview with John McNally, Author of "After the Workshop" 2010