Edmund Wilson's last collection of criticism,
The Devils & Canon Barham,
contains ten essays on Poets, Novelists, and Monsters
Previously published in the
New Yorker
and the
New York Review of Books
, Wilson's writing featured in this volume sees the critic returning to his roots and youth, with essays on his childhood love for
The Ingoldsby Legends,
the works of Hemingway, Eliot's The Waste Land
,
and ends with a peice on The Monsters of Bomarzo and by taking the Modern Language Association (MLA) to task.