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

Edmund Wilson

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999 - Literary Collections - 219 pages

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, and ends with a peice on The Monsters of Bomarzo and by taking the Modern Language Association (MLA) to task.

About the author

Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) was a novelist, memoirist, playwright, journalist, poet, and editor but it is as a literary critic that he is most highly regarded. His more than twenty books include Axel’s Castle, Patriotic Gore, To the Finland Station, and Memoirs of Hecate County.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Devils and Canon Barham: Ten Essays On Poets, Novelists and Monsters
• Author: Edmund Wilson
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999
• ISBN: 0374526699, 9780374526696
• Length: 219 pages
• Subjects: Literary Collections / Essays; Literary Criticism / American / General; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / General