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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John Haffenden. n.d. no date NED NYRB OED RB Russo SCW SSS New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1907) The New York Review of Books Oxford English Dictionary WE, The Royal Beasts and Other Works (London, 1986) John Paul Russo ...
John Haffenden. n.d. no date NED NYRB OED RB Russo SCW SSS New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1907) The New York Review of Books Oxford English Dictionary WE, The Royal Beasts and Other Works (London, 1986) John Paul Russo ...
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... English Dog' (first published in 1936–7 and revised for Complex Words), he anticipated the selfreflexive inclinations of postmodernism with these reflections on his own usage: 'I have kept on using “blow the gaff” for something like ...
... English Dog' (first published in 1936–7 and revised for Complex Words), he anticipated the selfreflexive inclinations of postmodernism with these reflections on his own usage: 'I have kept on using “blow the gaff” for something like ...
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... English literature prize at Winchester, where the second master writes of him: 'He has a distinctly enterprising intellect, but must remember that his opinions on the big questions of life can still be only tentative and experimental ...
... English literature prize at Winchester, where the second master writes of him: 'He has a distinctly enterprising intellect, but must remember that his opinions on the big questions of life can still be only tentative and experimental ...
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... English at Tokyo University of Literature and Science (Bunrika Daigaku); teaches also at Tokyo Imperial University. February: six poems are included in anthology, New Signatures, published by the Hogarth Press. Poems, in an edition of ...
... English at Tokyo University of Literature and Science (Bunrika Daigaku); teaches also at Tokyo Imperial University. February: six poems are included in anthology, New Signatures, published by the Hogarth Press. Poems, in an edition of ...
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... English, Pennsylvania State University. Autumn: Visiting Professor, Department of English, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware. Fellow of the British Academy. Honorary Fellow of the Modern Language Association of America. 10 June ...
... English, Pennsylvania State University. Autumn: Visiting Professor, Department of English, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware. Fellow of the British Academy. Honorary Fellow of the Modern Language Association of America. 10 June ...
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