His own creative works include poetry collected in books like Night Thoughts and such novels as I Thought of Daisy, though he is better known for non-fiction works like the polemical The Cold War and the Income Tax and the literary criticism collected in The Triple Thinkers and The Wound and the Bow.  
He caused stir with his essay "Is Verse a Dying Technique?" which along with an essay about Paul Elmer More, "Mr. More and the Mithraic Bull," appeared in a collection whose title was taken from the letters of Gustave Flaubert.  He wrote about "Uncomfortable Casanova" and "The Dream of H. C. Earwicker" in a collection whose longest essay, which was subtitled "The Two Scrooges," offered a psychological interpretation of the works of Charles Dickens.  His own creative works include poetry collected in books like Night Thoughts and such novels as I Thought of Daisy, though he is better known for non-fiction works like the polemical The Cold War and the Income Tax and the literary criticism collected in The Triple Thinkers and The Wound and the Bow.  FTP, name this man considered by many to be the greatest 20th-century American literary critic, who also wrote Patriotic Gore and To the Finland Station.
He caused stir with his essay "Is Verse a Dying Technique?" which along with an essay about Paul Elmer More, "Mr. More and the Mithraic Bull," appeared in a collection whose title was taken from the letters of Gustave Flaubert.  
Edmund Wilson