The Method of Edmund Wilson
- The Method of Edmund Wilson1
Resigned from the staff of University College, and the Editorial Board of the Quarterly, to become Professor of English, and Chairman of the Department, at Cornell University. For his years of brilliant and effective service the Quarterly is grateful. It is pleasant to add that he will still con tribute to its pages, and especially to “Letters in Canada.”
Footnotes
1. Axel’s Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870–1930, New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1931, $2.50.
The Triple Thinkers: Ten Essays on Literature, New York, Harcourt, Brace & Co. [Toronto, George J. McLeod], 1938, $2.75.
To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History, New York, Harcourt, Brace & Co. [Toronto, George J. McLeod], 1940, $5.00.
The Wound and the Bow: Seven Studies in Literature, Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co. [Toronto, Thomas Allen], 1941, $3.75.
The Boys in the Back Room: Notes on California Novelists, San Francisco, Colt Press, 1941, $2.50.
2. Edmond Wilson interprets John Forster’s account of the episode in this fashion; actually there is nothing in Forster’s text to require the interpretation of “little gentleman” as a gibe.
