Word: edmundian
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This stilted exchange might have come from Edwardian comedy. It rises in fact from Edmundian solemnity. When he died of heart disease last week at 77, Edmund Wilson had indeed investigated the main departments of human thought. More than that, he had, in his term, "a synoptic" vision of them all. Literature, politics, history, language, travel -all arenas felt his deliberate footsteps; all were illuminated by his urbane, relentless intelligence. They are still lit; 22 of his books remain in print. His original judgments on 20th century literary masters have been vindicated; his piercing moral arguments against totalitarianism have actually...
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