Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course will cover the full scope of Civil War literature, including fiction, poetry, military memoirs, diaries, and letters. In presenting his material, Wilson said yesterday, "I expect to read and then talk to the class directly...
...Edmund Wilson--critic, historian and novelist--will teach two courses here next year. The first, a full year undergraduate course limited to 100 students, will deal with the literature of the Civil War; the other, a one-term graduate seminar, will investigate the use of language in literature...
Recently appointed the second Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of English, Wilson will base his undergraduate course on his nearly completed book, which surveys writings of the Civil War period. He will deal with the works of authors from Harriet Beecher Stowe to the elder Oliver Wendell Holmes...
While teaching at the University, Wilson expects to put his book into final form. It has been his experience in the past "that students' questions and opinions are a great help in determining some of the things I should...
...noisiest censorship yap since James Joyce's Ulysses was declared literature by Federal Judge John M. Woolsey in 1933. Into the bookshops goes an unexpurgated edition (Grove Press; 368 pp.; $6), the first ever published in the U.S. It comes forearmed with assurances by pundits (Edmund Wilson, Jacques Barzun, Mark Schorer, Archibald MacLeish) that Lady Chatterley is not only a decent but an important book. And the publishers, listening for the bugling of the censorship hounds, are ready with an advance printing of 30,000 copies...