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.
About This Quote
About Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson was a 19th-century American writer and literary critic. Edmund Wilson Jr. was an American writer, literary critic, and journalist. Read more on Wikipedia →