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Author: Edmund Wilson

📘 The wound and the bow by Edmund Wilson

The Wound and the Bow is a collection of seven essays by the legendary literary and social critic Edmund Wilson. The essays explore the intricate relationship between art and suffering, covering figures such as Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, and Jacques Casanova. Wilson's essays did not establish a new body of literary theory or a new school of literary criticism, but rather animated or reanimated the reputations of the artists he discussed and furthered the quest for the sources of their literary artistry and craftsmanship.

First publish date: 1941

Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction

Authors: Edmund Wilson

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