LITERARY INSIGHTS
THE WOUND AND THE BOW, by Edmund Wilson; W. H. Alen. English price, 18/-. [-SSAYS in this book were much debated when they were first published in 1941, and the demand for a new edition shows that the interest continues. Nor can this be surprising. Edmund Wilson has looked at Dickens with a seeing eye. Brushing aside conventional attitudes, he looks beyond the entertainer and sees the great novelist-the greatest dramatic writer in England, he believes, since Shakespeare. But his long study of Dickens, easily the best part of the book, is by no means a new idolatry: Wilson brings the man and his work into a balanced relationship, and he never forgets the text. An essay on Kipling is equally penetrating, though much less sympathetic, and in some ways rather cruel in its portrayal of an unhappy man. The remaining pieces are slighter; but the book is _ notable throughout for its psychological insight especially in the treatment of early maladjustment as a creative influence in writing.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 718, 17 April 1953, Page 14
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