Edmund Wilson's Clear Light

The lucid prose and inclusive views of "the last great critic in the English line"

On Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature by Lewis M. Dabney (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $35)

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William H. Pritchard teaches English at Amherst College. His books include Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered, Lives of the Modern Poets, and Updike: America's Man of Letters.

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