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: Gina Lyle (University of Glasgow), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham 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)

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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 essays of existential criticism, by insisting that “...works of art are

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Citation: Stanley, Colin. "Eagle and Earwig". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 November 2012 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=23925, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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