Examines the career of the critic, historian, and journalist during the 1920s and 1930s, discussing the books and opinions that have made him a landmark literary figure
The blokes were writers who revitalized British drama, fiction, poetry, and criticism. When Britain was in the economic doldrums, when its supply of great authors was dwindling after World War II, the
This examination and celebration of the literature and thought of the 1950s throws the enduring works of a golden era into high relief. An unconventional tour of a crucial period in 20th-century cultu
Many of Wilson's writings have been anthologized. But there is another body of work - over fifty fine essays on aspects of contemporary literature and ideas - that have been scattered in a variety of
Aficionados of the American literary critic Wilson may find many of these letters disenchantingly trivial, dealing with baby's new tooth, or begging funds for his son. There are many letters that make
