Comments on: Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature by Lewis Dabney http://calitreview.com/196 An arts and culture magazine. Tue, 22 May 2012 23:20:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Trypticonhttp://calitreview.com/196/comment-page-1#comment-797 Trypticon Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:03:22 +0000 http://calitreview.com//2007/06/04/edmund-wilson-a-life-in-literature-by-lewis-dabney/#comment-797 Is this seriously considered a review of a major biography? A commentator holding forth on his exagerated and distorted sense of Wilson's politics while saying the man's value is in his writing while not giving any sense of that writing or its staggering scope? It seems like Ron Capshaw consulted the stultified Cliff Notes of his mind rather than consulting the vast work of Wilson or the biography at hand which has been getting serious treatment in such places as: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/books/review/04TOIBIN.html?pagewanted=all http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2005/09/04/inquiring_mind/ http://www.bookpage.com/0509bp/nonfiction/edmund_wilson.html This "review" is entirely without substance and demonstrates an utter lack of seriousness by this so called Literary Review. Is this seriously considered a review of a major biography? A commentator holding forth on his exagerated and distorted sense of Wilson’s politics while saying the man’s value is in his writing while not giving any sense of that writing or its staggering scope?

It seems like Ron Capshaw consulted the stultified Cliff Notes of his mind rather than consulting the vast work of Wilson or the biography at hand which has been getting serious treatment in such places as:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/books/review/04TOIBIN.html?pagewanted=all

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2005/09/04/inquiring_mind/

http://www.bookpage.com/0509bp/nonfiction/edmund_wilson.html

This “review” is entirely without substance and demonstrates an utter lack of seriousness by this so called Literary Review.

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