The Devils and Canon Barham: Ten Essays On Poets, Novelists and Monsters

by Edmund Wilson

Overview

Edmund Wilson's last collection of criticism, The Devils & Canon Barham, contains ten essays on Poets, Novelists, and Monsters

Previously published in the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, Wilson's writing featured in this volume sees the critic returning to his roots and youth, with essays on his childhood love for The Ingoldsby Legends, the works of Hemingway, Eliot's The Waste Land, and ends with a peice on The Monsters of Bomarzo and by taking the Modern Language Association (MLA) to task.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780374526696
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	12/01/1999
Pages:	219
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.53(d)

About the Author

Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) was a novelist, memoirist, playwright, journalist, poet, and editor but it is as a literary critic that he is most highly regarded. His more than twenty books include Axel’s Castle, Patriotic Gore, To the Finland Station, and Memoirs of Hecate County.

Table of Contents

1. The Devils and Canon Barham

Two Neglected American Novelists:

2. —Henry B. Fuller; The Art of Making It Flat

3. —Harold Frederic; The Expanding Upstater

4. How Not to Be Bored by Maurice Baring

5. The Aftermath of Mencken

6. An Effort at Self-revelation

7. The Waste Land in Deshabille

8. Baldini: A Memoir and a Collaboration with Edwin O'Connor

9. The Fruits of the MLA

10. The Monsters of Bomarzo