Selected Letters of William EmpsonJohn Haffenden OUP Oxford, 2006 M03 9 - 792 páginas This edited collection of letters by William Empson (1906-1984), one of the foremost writers and literary critics of the twentieth century, ranges across the entirety of his career. Parts of the correspondence record the development of ideas that were to come to fruition in seminal texts including Seven Types of Ambiguity, The Structure of Complex Words, and Milton's God. The topics of other letters range from Shakespeare's Dark Lady to Marvell's marriage and Byron's bisexuality. Empson relished correspondence that was combative, if not downright aggressive. As a result, parts of this edition take the form of a serial disputation with other critics of the period, including Frank Kermode, Helen Gardner, Philip Hobsbaum, and I. A. Richards. Other notable correspondents include A. Alvarez, Bonamy Dobrée, Leslie Fiedler, Graham Hough, C. K. Ogden, George Orwell, Kathleen Raine, John Crowe Ransom, Christopher Ricks, Laura Riding, A. L. Rowse, Stephen Spender, E. M. W. Tillyard, Rosemond Tuve, John Wain, and G. Wilson Knight. All readers of literary history and criticism will stand to benefit from this edition. Empson is universally credited as the man who 'invented' modern literary criticism, so that all of his writings make a signal addition to the canon of his works. This selection provides a context for the evaluation of Empson's total literary output; and in many letters Empson seeks to defend his ideas against both published and personal attacks. This volume not only fills in all the missing links, it adds up to a completely new volume of critical writings by Empson. |
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... Ambiguity (1930; 3rd edn., 1953) WE, Some Versions of Pastoral (London, 1935; 1966) The Times Literary Supplement typescript T. S. Eliot WE, Using Biography (London, 1984) William Empson STA SVP TLS TS TSE UB WE archive references All ...
... Ambiguity (1930; 3rd edn., 1953) WE, Some Versions of Pastoral (London, 1935; 1966) The Times Literary Supplement typescript T. S. Eliot WE, Using Biography (London, 1984) William Empson STA SVP TLS TS TSE UB WE archive references All ...
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... Ambiguity, p. 49 I have a fatal habit of irritating people when I write them letters (a thing I do only by effort) ... Letter to I. A. Richards, ? September 1948 It is easy to feel (though admittedly it goes utterly against everyone's ...
... Ambiguity, p. 49 I have a fatal habit of irritating people when I write them letters (a thing I do only by effort) ... Letter to I. A. Richards, ? September 1948 It is easy to feel (though admittedly it goes utterly against everyone's ...
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... ambiguous phrase) seeing how they saw it. 'I wonder if you have an expert on Elizabethan plays knocking about,' Empson asked his greatest fan and friend, Christopher Ricks, in 1976, 'fairly young, who would be prepared to enter into ...
... ambiguous phrase) seeing how they saw it. 'I wonder if you have an expert on Elizabethan plays knocking about,' Empson asked his greatest fan and friend, Christopher Ricks, in 1976, 'fairly young, who would be prepared to enter into ...
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... Ambiguity he keenly discriminated: 'The English prepositions from being used in so many ways in combination with so many verbs, have acquired not so much a number of meanings as a body of meaning continuous in several dimensions; a tool ...
... Ambiguity he keenly discriminated: 'The English prepositions from being used in so many ways in combination with so many verbs, have acquired not so much a number of meanings as a body of meaning continuous in several dimensions; a tool ...
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... Ambiguity, of George Herbert's poem 'The Sacrifice'. (This was not a battle between generations, for they were near contemporaries.) Tuve patronized Empson as historically 'naïve' for 29 30 WE, 'Obscurity and Annotation', A, 83. T. S. ...
... Ambiguity, of George Herbert's poem 'The Sacrifice'. (This was not a battle between generations, for they were near contemporaries.) Tuve patronized Empson as historically 'naïve' for 29 30 WE, 'Obscurity and Annotation', A, 83. T. S. ...
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