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Edmund Wilson • 627 Items / 55 Books, 309 Articles, 249 Reviews, 11 Poems
The Shores of Light (1952)
by Edmund Wilson
A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties and Thirties
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Published Reviews
  1. Books
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    The Wholeness of Language (Review)
    William Phillips
    The Shores of Light, by Edmund Wilson
    1. The Shores of Light by Edmund Wilson
    The American Mercury, November 1952, pp. 103-107
  2. Books
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    A Critic, Not a Reviewer (Review)
    Frank Getlein
    The Shores of Light, by Edmund Wilson
    1. The Shores of Light by Edmund Wilson
    Commonweal, December 12, 1952, p. 262
  3. Literature and the Arts
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    Edmund Wilson's Specimen Days (Review)
    Malcolm Cowley
    The Shores of Light, by Edmund Wilson
    1. The Shores of Light by Edmund Wilson
    The New Republic, November 10, 1952, p. 17
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    A Swift Knife (Review)
    W.T. Scott
    The Shores of Light, by Edmund Wilson
    1. The Shores of Light by Edmund Wilson
    The Saturday Review, November 15, 1952, p. 25
  5. Books & Writers
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    Edmund Wilson's Achievement (3 Reviews)
    Frank Kermode
    The Shores of Light, by Edmund Wilson
    1. The Shores of Light by Edmund Wilson
    2. Classics and Commercials by Edmund Wilson
    3. Axel's Castle by Edmund Wilson
    Encounter, May 1966, pp. 61-69
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    Atlantic Bookshelf (12 Reviews)
    Charles J. Rolo
    Reader's Choice
    1. Sironia, Texas by Madison Cooper
    2. Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell by Alan Dent, Bernard Shaw, and Mrs. Patrick Campbell, ...
    3. The Selected Prose of Bernard Shaw by Diarmuid Russell and Bernard Shaw
    4. Abraham Lincoln: A Biography by Benjamin Platt Thomas
    5. Lincoln: A Picture Story of His Life by Stefan Lorant
    6. Impressions of Lincoln and the Civil War by Charles A. de Pineton Chambrun
    7. Lincoln Finds a General by Kenneth P. Williams
    8. Lincoln the President, Vol. III: Midstream by J.G. Randall
    9. Madeleine by Andre Gide
    10. The Correspondence Between Paul Claudel and Andre Gide, 1899-1926 by Robert Mallet, Paul Claudel, and Andre Gide
    11. The Days Before by Katherine Anne Porter
    12. The Shores of Light by Edmund Wilson
    The Atlantic Monthly, December 1952, pp. 92-97
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    New Books (19 Reviews)
    Gilbert Highet
    Enough for Everyone, Almost
    1. To Live as We Wish by Mark Aldanov
    2. The Wonderful Country by Tom Lea
    3. The Magic Lantern by Robert Carson
    4. Confessors of the Name by Gladys Schmitt
    5. October Island by William March
    6. We Chose the Islands by Arthur F. Grimble
    7. Citizens of the World by Stringfellow Barr
    8. The Shores of Light by Edmund Wilson
    9. Language as Gesture by R.P. Blackmur
    10. Bullfighter from Brooklyn by Sidney Franklin#2
    11. Ushant by Conrad Aiken
    12. George Washington: A Biography, Vol. V by Douglas Southall Freeman
    13. Lincoln the President, Vol. III: Midstream by J.G. Randall
    14. Lincoln: A Picture Story of His Life by Stefan Lorant
    15. Napoleon Bonaparte by J.M. Thompson
    16. The Devils of Loudon by Aldous Huxley
    17. The Course of Empire by Bernard DeVoto
    18. The Decisive Moment by Henri Cartier-Bresson
    19. Eternal France by Martin Hurlimann
    The Harpers Monthly, December 1952, pp. 96-105