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Edmund Wilson was a prominent American literary critic and writer of the 20th century. His works spanned various genres including literary criticism, fiction, biography, and prose, and had a profound impact on American literature of the 20th century.

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Famous Edmund Wilson Quotes

“The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.”

Imagination Vision Products Relation Artistic New Vision

Book:Letters on Literature and Politics, 1912-1972

Source: Letters on Literature and Politics, 1912-1972

“The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, ‘notwithstanding,’ in the long run remakes the world.”

World Mind Long Said Done Hands Running Imagination Long Runs Deliberate Remakes

Book:The portable Edmund Wilson

Source: The portable Edmund Wilson

“The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.”

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Book:Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s

Source: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s

About the Author

Born: May 8, 1895
Died: June 12, 1972
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 35

Books & Sources

Memoirs of Hecate CountyRelated source material

Letters on Literature and Politics, 1912-1972Related source material

Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40sRelated source material

The Forties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the PeriodRelated source material

Europe without Baedeker: sketches among the ruins of Italy, Greece and England, together with, Notes from a European diary, 1963-1964Related source material

I Thought of DaisyRelated source material

The Edmund Wilson ReaderRelated source material

The portable Edmund WilsonRelated source material

The shores of light: a literary chronicle of the twenties and thirtiesRelated source material

To the Finland StationRelated source material

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