Wilson was not, in the academic sense, a scholar or historian. He was an enormous reader, one of those readers who are perpetually on the scent from book to book. He was the old-style man of letters, but galvanized and with the iron of purpose in him.
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V. S. Pritchett was a 19th-century British writer and critic. Sir Victor Sawdon Pritchett was a British writer and literary critic. Read more on Wikipedia →