3 Edmund Wilson Quotes on Criticism

Edmund Wilson quotes on criticism

4. Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

5. He was, as painted, aristocratic, beyond any writer I've met, but in a Jeffersonian-American way that brooked no artificial distinctions. There was no cheap way you could impress him... It was a particular strength of his as a critic that he was not even impressed by the Dead as such. He could write of living authors in precisely the same tones, and applying the same standards, as he used for the Classics.

8. Wilson is not like other critics; some critics are boring even when they are original; he fascinates even when he is wrong.