Edmund Wilson Regrets The Retrograde, The Oxford Boys Becalmed, ‘New Republic'

Famed as a literary critic, cultural commentator, and memoirist, Edmund Wilson (1895–1972) is generally regarded as the pre-eminent American man of letters of his time. His many influential books include ‘Axel’s Castle’ (1931), ‘The Wound and the Bow’ (1941), ‘To the Finland Station’ (1940), and the posthumous ‘Letters on Literature and Politics 1912–1972’ (ed. Elena Wilson, 1977).