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

by Edmund Wilson

Book 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, ...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374526699
• ISBN13: 9780374526696
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.1"