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	Edmund Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edmund Wilson was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, and educated first at The Hill School and then at Princeton.
		Wilson's early works are heavily influenced by the ideas of Freud and Marx, reflecting his deep interest in their work.
		Edmund Wilson was a close friend of writer F.
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	Edmund Beecher Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856 - 1939) was an American geneticist and zoologist, born at Geneva, Illinois, and graduated from Yale in 1878.
		He was lecturer at Williams College in 1883-84 and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1884-85; served as professor of biology at Bryn Mawr College from 1885 to 1891; and at Columbia was adjunct professor of biology (1891-94), professor of invertebrate zoölogy (1894-97), and professor of zoölogy after 1897.
		Wilson, is credited as America's first cell biologist, in 1898 he used the similarity in embryos to describe phylogenetic relationships, by observing spinal cleavage in molluscs, flatworms and annelids he concluded that the same organs came from the same group of cells, he concluded that all these organisms must have a common ancestor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edmund_Beecher_Wilson (321 words)

	Edmund Wilson - MSN Encarta
		Edmund Wilson (author) (1895-1972), American author and critic, regarded by many as the foremost man of letters and molder of literary taste of his time in the United States.
		Wilson wrote about a variety of subjects and in many forms—including the novel, the short story, drama, verse, history, and biography—but he was preeminently a social and literary critic.
		Wilson's notes were published posthumously as The Twenties (1975), The Thirties (1980), The Forties (1983), The Fifties (1986), and The Sixties (1993).
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	Amardeep Singh: Edmund Wilson got it right, most of the time
		Edmund Wilson was one of the great journalistic literary critics of the 20th century.
		Wilson is responding to Eliot's general sense that western civilization was in decline -- a common perception of the time, after the devestation of World War I and the cynical capitalism of the 1920s.
		Wilson was generally a leftist in his political orientation, but in 1940 he distanced himself from Stalinism after seeing firsthand the atmosphere of fear and paranoia the totalitarian Soviet regime was creating.
	www.lehigh.edu /~amsp/2004/04/edmund-wilson-got-it-right-most-of.html (885 words)

	TAP: Vol 7, Iss. 29. The Other Edmund Wilson. Scott Stossel. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Wilson was not, in short, a shrewd political or social analyst.
		Wilson's literary criticism, situated at what Lionel Trilling called "the bloody crossroads where literature and politics meet," is fundamentally criticism of life.
		Wilson's fervent revolutionary socialism was a product of his times; later, he strongly repudiated it, becoming a social democrat, an ardent anti-Stalinist and a proud, if cranky, patriot.
	www.prospect.org /print/V7/29/stossel-s.html (3492 words)

	Amazon.ca: Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Then again, Wilson didn't fulfill the essential requirement for continuing biographical fascination (dying young and/or wretchedly), but merely lived to be an old man who loved and was loved in return by many, and who did the work he set out to do and did it extremely well.
		Even though Wilson was spared his father's crippling hypochondria, he was prone to the same periodic depressions, once requiring institutionalisation (at approximately the same age, thirty-four, his father had been when suffering his first major breakdown).
		Wilson (1895–1972) was mid–20th-century America's most influential literary critic, and Dabney meticulously unfolds the circumstances behind the writing of his most significant books while tracing the evolution of Wilson's thought.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0374113122 (1326 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: A Critic At Large
		Wilson’s life was one of Wilson’s subjects, and he must have intended that later readers would take him the way he took Proust and Marx and Casanova—as a historical figure, the critical reflector of an age.
		Wilson took literature as it is—that is, he took what the writer was saying to be what the writer was saying, and not something that required extra-literary equipment to decipher.
		Wilson thought that literature is determined by history and by psychology: that was always, to use the journalistic term, the hook in his pieces.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/atlarge/articles/050808crat_atlarge (4432 words)

	Edmund Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Edmund beecher wilson (1856 - 1939) was an american geneticist and zoologist....
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		Wilson's critical works helped foster public appreciation for U.S. novelists Ernest Hemingway[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link], EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ed/edmund_wilson.htm (1653 words)

	Edmund Wilson, at last.(Book Review) - National Review - HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Author Lewis Dabney met Wilson during the 1960s and admires him, even to the point of identifying with his sense of being the citizen of "an older America." The biographer has done prodigious research: Here we have the great man of letters, and the man as he was.
		Wilson's accounts of sex in his journal are enough to banish the subject from anyone's mind.
		Wilson's biographical sketches, enriched by apt quotation, are masterly.
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	The critic as a titan of all things literary / A new biography of Edmund Wilson argues that he remains relevant to ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Edmund Wilson, 20th century America's best-known literary critic, was neither a snob nor a professor.
		Wilson excites the reader about the vast sweep of history and literature, and without condescension to his subjects or reader, explains as well as he can (which is usually awfully well) the significance of important people and enormous events.
		Wilson had a streak of generosity a mile wide, and it pervaded not only his work but also his literary life, where he acted as an unpaid agent and editor for friends and admired writers.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/08/28/RVGHKEAEQK1.DTL&type=printable (844 words)

	The Edmund Wilson centenary by Hilton Kramer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For Wilson belonged to a tradition—he may have been its last major representative in America—for which history was itself a branch of literature; and literature, though not finally reducible to the historical conditions in which it is created, nonetheless remained a key to the understanding of history.
		Wilson is commonly thought to have been radicalized by the Marxist movement in the 1930s—a current of political thought and political action in which he did indeed, for a time, become deeply engaged.
		If this is what happens in Wilson’s case, it would be indeed an irony, for it was a large part of his success as a writer that he used the biographical portrait as a means of recalling his readers to a writer’s merits as well as to his place in history.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/13/may95/hilton2.htm (3118 words)

	Edmund Wilson
		Edmund Wilson, the son of a railroad lawyer, was born in Red Bank, New Jersey on 8th May, 1895.
		A little girl with curvature of the spine, whose mother had died when she was a baby, she abjectly admired her father, a man of consequence in frontier Illinois, a friend of Lincoln and a member of the state legislature, who had a floor mill and a lumber mill on his place.
		Wilson was among the fortunate handful of writers who have succeeded in doing this, with books that are like bold deeds and that will live a long time after him, keeping him with us against our need.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAwilsonE.htm (862 words)

	AllRefer.com - Edmund Wilson (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Among his major writings are Axel's Castle (1931), a study of symbolism and other imaginative literatures (see symbolists); The Wound and the Bow (1941); The Shores of Light (1952); and Patriotic Gore (1962).
		As a critic Wilson was concerned with the social, psychological, and political conditions that shape literary ideas.
		Wilson's third wife was the author Mary McCarthy.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Wilson-E.html (440 words)

	Biographies, Edmund Wilson
		Edmund Beecher Wilson was born in Geneva, Illinois in 1856.
		Wilson transferred to Columbia University in 1891 where he eventually became head of the zoology department and elevated it to a peak of international prestige.
		However, both Wilson and Stevens are credited with the theory of sex determination by chromosomes, since they arrived at it independently.
	www.geneticstv.org /scientists/wilson.htm (390 words)

	BookPage Nonfiction Review: Edmund Wilson
		Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) was America's most influential literary critic from the early 1920s through the 1950s.
		Wilson was the first in the U.S. to review Ernest Hemingway's work, the first to consider Yeats the great modern poet and the critic who helped to introduce the work of James Joyce, Gertrude Stein and Edith Wharton to a general audience.
		Dabney describes Wilson as "the last great critic in the English line." What led to his pre-eminence, Dabney says, was that "Readers respond to what Auden called the unassertive elegance of his prose, to his vigorous narrative rhythm, his reserve of apt and forceful imagery, and his art of quotation.
	www.bookpage.com /0509bp/nonfiction/edmund_wilson.html (517 words)

	TIME.com: Edmund Wilson's Life in Letters -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Edmund Wilson was an excellent specimen of that now nearly extinct species: the all-around man of letters.
		This volume begins with letters that Wilson wrote to his parents while he was overseas during World War I, then divides the letters up in sections according to their recipients, and while this technique has been used before (most notably with Andrew Turnbull's edition of Fitzgerald's letters), I've never quite see the point of it.
		And Wilson the amateur linguist, who had a habit of sprinkling his letters with bits of Greek, Hebrew and Russian, would hardly have approved of the decision not to print his use of other languages in their original orthography.
	www.time.com /time/sampler/article/0,8599,264219,00.html (818 words)

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		She was eventually given an assistantship by the Carnegie Institute after glowing recommendations from Thomas Hunt Morgan, Edmund Wilson and M. Carey Thomas, the president of Bryn Mawr.
		Edmund Beecher Wilson was born in Geneva, Illinois.
		Wilson's training was in the field of embryology; genetics as a science did not exist at the time.
	www.dnaftb.org /dnaftb/concept_9/con9bio.html (730 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Edmund Wilson
		Later, when Wilson turned to autobiographical essays as a fresh way of exploring the meanings of American life, he did so with a dignity and thoroughness that would put present-day first-person confessionalists to shame.
		Wilson could still find the energy to laugh at it all, dismissing the landscape with a patrician arrogance that his energy and learning had long ago earned him.
		Edmund Wilson's death must sadden us for it closes a chapter in our national cultural history that he himself helped write; but it also reinforces our own sense of purpose by throwing into relief a life of quiet heroism and insatiable curiosity.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=249596 (586 words)

	A Review of EDMUND WILSON: A LIFE IN LITERATURE by Lewis Dabney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1916 Princeton, a young and still slender Edmund Wilson was advised by professors to "seek the truth, no matter where it lay or who it hurt." Forty-seven years later, Wilson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom "for literary merit but not good conduct" in the words of presenter JFK.
		Wilson was interested in working people as individuals in a manner that Lenin would have written off as bourgeoisie sentimentality.
		Wilson had little in common with any of the old Bolsheviks; it is true he had a temper but he was hardly a joiner.
	www.calitreview.com /Reviews/edmundwilson_061.htm (750 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Forgetting Edmund Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		...Wilson at his meanest shows up in Dabney’s account of his marriage to the novelist and critic Mary McCarthy—a marriage made in 1937 when he was forty-two and she was twenty-five...
		...Wilson could never quite bring himself to say flat out that Lenin was no hero but one of the great barbarians of history and that it would have been much better for the Russian people had his train never arrived...
		...Wilson, who owed taxes for several years running, purported to be outraged at the realization that some of his (as yet unpaid) tax money would go for weapons that might be used in war...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V120I5P55-1.htm (3849 words)

	'Edmund Wilson': American Critic - New York Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As Lewis M. Dabney makes clear in ''Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature,'' Wilson's influence as a writer and editor at The New Republic in the 1920's and 30's and as a critic writing in The New Yorker in the 1940's, 50's and 60's would scarcely be possible now.
		Edmund Wilson, an only child, was born in 1895, in Red Bank, N.J. His mother called him Bunny, a nickname he kept his whole life.
		Wilson's great gift as a critic was his ability throughout his life to write with acuity and real seriousness about new work, fresh from the printers, while deepening his engagement with iconic figures like James and Flaubert, Ben Jonson and Pushkin.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/09/04/books/review/04TOIBIN.html?ex=1283572800&en=5582d4405edb7cbc&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (792 words)

	Edmund Wilson, the Man in Letters - Review
		Conspicuous in their absences, however, are the central figures of fellow Princetonian F. Scott Fitzgerald, his lover Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Vladimir Nabokov (although the complete correspondence between Wilson and the lattter was collected in one volume); and in general there are relatively few letters from the 1920s to ’30s.
		Nonetheless, Wilson is on display here not simply as the opinionated literary lion but more familiarity with as son, friend, husband and parent, showing more charm and sympathy than he did in the bombastic Letters from Literature and Politics.
		This book is a tremendous pleasure to read because Wilson is one of the great prose stylists of American letters, and few Americans have written as well about such a wide variety of subjects.
	www.ohiou.edu /oupress/edmundwilsonreview.htm (352 words)

	Amazon.com: To the Finland Station (New York Review Books Classics): Books: Edmund Wilson,Louis Menand (Introduction) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Edmund Wilson's magnum opus, To the Finland Station, is a stirring account of revolutionary politics, people, and ideas from the French Revolution through the Paris Commune to the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917.
		Wilson had been a great student and admirer of the collected works of Karl Marx, and brought his immense intellectual and reporting skills to bear in describing the men, the ideas, and the issues of the so-called October revolution of 1918.
		So, too, is Wilson's examination of Lenin a wondrous thing to read through, with his thoughtful if perhaps too sympathetic explanations of Lenin's goals, motives, and frustrations in trying to set the revolution on course and on-mark with the needs of the modern socialist state he envisioned to grow from the original seizure of power.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590170334?v=glance (2620 words)

	Lewis Dabney \| Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature \| WGBH Forum Network \| Free Online Lectures
		Wilson documented his unruly private life, a formative love affair with Edna St Vincent Millay, a tempestuous marriage to Mary McCarthy, and volatile friendships with Fitzgerald and Vladimir Nabokov, among others, in fiction and journals, but Lewis Dabney is the first writer to integrate the life and the work.
		Along the way, Dabney shows why Wilson was and has remained a model foryoung writers and intellectuals, as well as the favorite critic of the general reader.
		Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature will be recognized as the definitive biography of this brilliant man whose life reflected so much of the cultural, social, and human experience of a turbulent century.
	forum.wgbh.org /wgbh/forum.php?lecture_id=2019 (214 words)

	Edmund Wilson - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856 - 1939) was an American geneticist.
		Wilson's second wife, Mary McCarthy, was also well-known for her literary criticism, and they co-operated on numerous works before their divorce.
		In his book The Cold War and the Income Tax: A Protest (1963), Wilson argued that, as a result of competitive militarization against the Soviet Union, the civil liberties of Americans were being paradoxically infringed upon under the guise of defense from Communism.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Edmund_Wilson (718 words)

	Alibris: Edmund Wilson
		A favorite among his own books, Wilson's erotic and devastating portrait of the upper middle-class still holds up as a corrosive indictment of the adultery and intellectual posturing that lie at the heart of suburban America.
		Compiled and edited by Edmund Wilson shortly after Fitzgerald's death, "The Crack-Up" tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at age thirty-nine from a life of success and glamor to one of emptiness and despair, and his...
		Edmund Wilson has written a new introduction to his classic study of the modern conception of history in the West, and has restored the appendices which appeared in the first edition of 1940 but were dropped from subsequent editions.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Wilson,Edmund (863 words)

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