Volume 19, Number 4 · September 21, 1972
F.W. Dupee
By Daniel Schiller
In response to E. W. 1895–1972
(July 20, 1972)
To the Editors:
In a recent piece [NYR, July 20] Jason Epstein remarks that Edmund Wilson "had no disciples or even any imitators." Not perhaps of Wilson's sheer magnitude and bulk. But it seems to me that F.W. Dupee's wonderful book on Henry James could hardly have been written without the example of Wilson's work; and I don't think anyone else, except Wilson himself, could have done it so well. Like so much of Wilson's criticism, it can be infinitely expanded upon but hardly improved upon.
Daniel Schiller
Columbia College, 1963
Brooklyn, New York