ON SWITCHING off the light after reading “War and Peace”, Edmund Wilson, an American critic, would find his bedroom magically “full of people”.

合上托尔斯泰的<战争与和平>, 熄了灯, 艾穆德·维尔甚这位美国批评家觉得卧室里仿佛“挤满了人”,心情迟迟无法平静.

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Edmund Wilson, one of the most significant American literary critics of the 20th century, advocates an aesthetic comeback of literary criticism to the society.

美国20世纪著名文学和社会批评家埃德蒙。 威尔逊以不辍笔耕的半个世纪向公众展示了他独特的文学批评观。

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He called it "The Last Tycoon." Fitzgerald's friend from Princeton University, the literary critic Edmund Wilson, helped to get it published.

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The list of contributors is formidable: Isaiah Berlin, Joan Didion, Susan Sontag, Edmund Wilson, etc, etc.

ECONOMIST: Barbara Epstein, editor, died on June 16th, aged 77

In 1944, Edmund Wilson published an article in this magazine that contained some disparaging remarks about the mystery genre.

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However, the American critic Edmund Wilson famously dismissed the work as "juvenile balderdash", and Philip Toynbee wrote in 1961 that Tolkien's works had "passed into a merciful oblivion".

BBC: Rings fellowship keeps on growing