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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... Eliot, the late Charles Empson, the late D. J. Enright, Maggie Fergusson (Royal Society of Literature), the late Professor Leslie Fiedler, the late Professor C. P. Fitzgerald, Mirabel Fitzgerald, Mrs Paddy Fraser, Michael Freeman ...
... Eliot, the late Charles Empson, the late D. J. Enright, Maggie Fergusson (Royal Society of Literature), the late Professor Leslie Fiedler, the late Professor C. P. Fitzgerald, Mirabel Fitzgerald, Mrs Paddy Fraser, Michael Freeman ...
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... Eliot House at Harvard University, a place that his mother might have assumed to be pretty companionable): 'This habit of using you to think with doesn't make for very lively letters.'16 Thinking at or thinking with: there is a patent ...
... Eliot House at Harvard University, a place that his mother might have assumed to be pretty companionable): 'This habit of using you to think with doesn't make for very lively letters.'16 Thinking at or thinking with: there is a patent ...
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... Eliot or Frank Kermode) or an actual opponent to oblige him to prove his ideas: he relished correspondence that was combative, if not downright aggressive. Robert Martin Adams (who himself crossed swords with Empson in 1954 over their ...
... Eliot or Frank Kermode) or an actual opponent to oblige him to prove his ideas: he relished correspondence that was combative, if not downright aggressive. Robert Martin Adams (who himself crossed swords with Empson in 1954 over their ...
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... Eliot's unsupported assertion, made at the turn of the 1930s: 'Donne was, I insist, no sceptic.'30 The same applied to his spats with scholars of Milton. For Empson, this big issue ran corrosively deeper than the sort of difference of ...
... Eliot's unsupported assertion, made at the turn of the 1930s: 'Donne was, I insist, no sceptic.'30 The same applied to his spats with scholars of Milton. For Empson, this big issue ran corrosively deeper than the sort of difference of ...
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... Eliot delivers his Clark Lectures, 'The Metaphysical Poets of the Seventeenth Century', at Trinity College, Cambridge. Although Empson does not attend all the lectures, he takes part in informal conversations with Eliot. In a later year ...
... Eliot delivers his Clark Lectures, 'The Metaphysical Poets of the Seventeenth Century', at Trinity College, Cambridge. Although Empson does not attend all the lectures, he takes part in informal conversations with Eliot. In a later year ...
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