Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Edmund Wilson

American Writer, Literary and Social Critic and Man of Letters

"You cannot have ecstasy and divine vision without bitterness and despair, and both of these are the property of youth."

"No two persons ever read the same book."

"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."

"The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations -- like that of artistic imagination."