tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942507909825471958.post4170162180358190031..comments2023-09-24T12:57:20.215-07:00Comments on The War Sonnets of John Allan Wyeth: Princeton literati in the World WarBJ Omansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12453642475353369564noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942507909825471958.post-17653610525003975212012-05-02T20:14:27.235-07:002012-05-02T20:14:27.235-07:00Sorry: the reference above from Dabney refers to t...Sorry: the reference above from Dabney refers to the early 1950s, after Wilson had written on the Dead Sea Scrolls and shows Wilson and Wyeth were acquainted then..Roger Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11012987757094423896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942507909825471958.post-2833153363890052862012-05-02T20:07:01.260-07:002012-05-02T20:07:01.260-07:00I had a few spare hours at the B.L., so I looked f...I had a few spare hours at the B.L., so I looked for more Edmund Wilson-Wyeth links.<br /> I'm not sure these are the only mentions of Wyeth, but Wilson's <i>A Prelude</i> mentions him on pp.107-109, 121 & 123 (W.H.Allen, 1967). Wyeth was alive then, so there may be more in Wilson's diaries and the original ms. and ts. In Dabney's <i> Edmund Wilson, A Literary Life </i> (2005), p.413, 'To his Princeton classmate John Wyeth back in New York he [Wilson] spoke of following in the footsteps of Voltaire and Renan.' shows that Wilson and Wyeth remained in touch which makes Wilson's silence and probable ignorance of <i> This Man's Army</i> even odder. Dabney also interviewed Wyeth (acknowledgments, p. 599-600), so there may be more in his papers. <br />In <i>A Prelude</i> Wilson mentions 'Bert Friend', almost certainly the later Professor Albert Friend, as closely connected to Wyeth, so his papers may be worth looking at. Wyeth doesn't appear in the 1916 0r 1919 <i> Book of Princeton Verse</i>, but has anyone looked in the <i>Nassau Literary Review </i> for the relevant years? They aren't in the B.L., so I wasn't able to. Were there any other unofficial literary magazines at Princeton?<br />Hope this helps.Roger Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11012987757094423896noreply@blogger.com