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    Edmund Wilson Jr. (May 8, 1895 – June 12, 1972) was an American writer, literary critic and journalist. He is widely regarded as one of the most important...
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    effectively vanished. The tireless promotional efforts of literary critic Edmund Wilson, who was Fitzgerald's Princeton classmate and his close friend, led...
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    Edmund Beecher Wilson (October 19, 1856 – March 3, 1939) was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist. He wrote one of the most influential textbooks...
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  • Edmund Wilson (1895–1972) was an American writer and critic. Other people with the name include: Edmund Wilson (physician) (1583–1633), British physician...
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    attended Princeton University where he befriended future literary critic Edmund Wilson. Owing to a failed romantic relationship with Chicago socialite Ginevra...
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  • Edmund Wilson MD FRCP (1583 – September 1633) was a Canon of Windsor from 1616 to 1617 and a physician. He was the son of William Wilson, Canon of Windsor...
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    Edmund Wilson Sr. (December 15, 1863 – May 15, 1923) was an American lawyer who served as the Attorney General of New Jersey from 1908 until 1914. He...
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    Edmund Wilson House is a historic home located at Talcottville in Lewis County, New York. It was built over a four-year period starting in 1789 and is...
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    American cardiologist Edmund Spenser (1552–1599), English poet Edmund Wilson (1895–1972), American writer and literary critic Edmund, an antagonist in the...
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  • written by Edmund Wilson and published by Farrar, Straus in 1963. Wilson was an American literary critic and author. As a younger man Wilson sympathized...
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  • H. Auden and Naomi Mitchison on its publication, though the critic Edmund Wilson attacked it in a review entitled "Oo, Those Awful Orcs!". The two flashback...
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  • Acting of History (1940) is a book by American critic and historian Edmund Wilson. The work presents the history of revolutionary thought and the birth...
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    Edward Osborne Wilson ForMemRS (June 10, 1929 – December 26, 2021) was an American biologist, naturalist, ecologist, and entomologist known for developing...
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  • novel have been the source of negative critical reaction. For example, Edmund Wilson, in a tepid review, noted the encumbrance of "a strange atmosphere of...
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    published posthumously under this title, as prepared by his friend Edmund Wilson, a critic and writer. According to Publishers Weekly, the novel is "generally...
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  • Imaginative Literature of 1870–1930 is a 1931 book of literary criticism by Edmund Wilson on the symbolist movement in literature. It includes a brief overview...
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    because nothing in life could equal their fantasies. From this play, Edmund Wilson adopted the title Axel's Castle for his influential study of the symbolist...
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    revised his second novel based on editorial suggestions from his friend Edmund Wilson and his editor Max Perkins. When reviewing the manuscript, Perkins commended...
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  • example, soon after the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls novelist Edmund Wilson (1955) suggested that Jesus may have studied with the Essenes, followed...
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    wilfully difficult. Edmund Wilson, being one of the critics who praised Eliot, called him "one of our only authentic poets". Wilson also pointed out some...
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    New York: Macaulay Company, 1927. Print. Edmund Wilson story "Galahad" included. Story reprinted in E. Wilson, Galahad / I Thought of Daisy, NY, Noonday...
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    activist, best known for her novel The Group, her marriage to critic Edmund Wilson, and her storied feud with playwright Lillian Hellman. McCarthy was...
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    critic Edmund Wilson posited that the ghosts were hallucinations of the governess, who he suggested was sexually repressed. As evidence, Wilson points...
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    so often somebody reprises Edmund Wilson's famous put-down of detective novels, 'Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?' Wilson regarded the genre as terminally...
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    regarded during much of her lifetime, with the prominent literary critic Edmund Wilson calling her "one of the only poets writing in English in our time who...
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    to Ellerslie in Wilmington, Delaware, in March 1927. Literary critic Edmund Wilson, recalling a party at the Fitzgerald home in Edgemoor, Delaware, in...
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    Literary critics have praised Chesnut's diary—the influential writer Edmund Wilson termed it "a work of art" and a "masterpiece" of the genre — as the...
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  • Fitzgerald's friend Edmund Wilson confirmed that Gerlach had primarily inspired the fictional character, including a statement by Wilson that Fitzgerald had...
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    disliked both the comparison and Conrad's work. He lamented to the critic Edmund Wilson, "I am too old to change Conradically"—which John Updike later called...
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  • of Indiana. Thornton also appeared in the journals of noted essayist Edmund Wilson. Thornton was born into a prominent family in the railroad business...
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