Edmund Wilson

And I want to say that Wilson who [died:lived] over [30:40] years ago, began his career before modern lit was taught and analyzed in the universities, as he [said:died] at one time and I think a piece about Christian golfs Gauss's I [called:knew] him Gauss as my father in his generation at Princeton a year or two after Wilson called him. When Wilson was studying there that the latest daring writers to get into the curriculum were widths of the 90s and maybe Gauss had his reputation as a bohemian romantic because he had known Oscar in Paris, but there was no modern lit Wilson came then from a different world and he became the focal point of a broad mainstream American [culture:literary] that thought that modern literature and wanted modern literature to be able to be read and appreciated by ordinary people, they were not modernists in an abstract sense and certainly some of them like TS Eliot and Faulkner were too difficult for some of their writings to be read by ordinary people, but this was a world before the [division:period] between the brows or between a [lead:long] or whatever had established itself as part of our consciousness.