Colin Wilson, Eagle and Earwig

Colin Stanley (University of Nottingham)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kerry Myler (Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1965

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Essays/ Lectures (any)

Resources

Eagle and Earwig, a selection of essays on books and writers, some previously printed elsewhere, was published by John Baker of London in October 1965. Although a “Readers Union” book club edition was published two years later and a Japanese translation in 1976, the book did not attract a publisher in the USA.

Eagle... has fifteen essays (plus an Introduction) and is divided into three sections: Literature and Philosophy (five essays with an Introduction); Individual Writers (seven essays); The Writer and Society (three essays). For his Introduction to Part One, Wilson borrows his title from T. S. Eliot: “Humanism and the Religious Attitude”. In it he clears the ground, before laying out this collection of …

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Citation: Stanley, Colin. "Eagle and Earwig". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 November 2012 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=23925, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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