“Yet for all its appalling longeurs, “Ulysses<\/i>” is a work of high genius. Its importance seems to me to lie, not so much in its opening new doors to knowledge — unless in setting an example to Anglo-Saxon writers of putting down everything without compunction — or in inventing new literary forms — Joyce’s formula is really, as I have indicated, nearly seventy-five years old — as in its once more setting the standard of the novel so high that it need not be ashamed to take its place beside poetry and drama. “Ulysses<\/i>” has the effect at once of making everything else look brassy.”<\/p>\n
— Edmund Wilson<\/i><\/p>\n
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