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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... Essays on William Empson (1993), ed. John Constable WE, Collected Poems (London, 1935) The Complete Poems of William ... Essays in Criticism WE, Essays on Renaissance Literature, vol. 1: Donne and the new philosophy (Cambridge, 1993) WE ...
... Essays on William Empson (1993), ed. John Constable WE, Collected Poems (London, 1935) The Complete Poems of William ... Essays in Criticism WE, Essays on Renaissance Literature, vol. 1: Donne and the new philosophy (Cambridge, 1993) WE ...
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... essays (as with the constant refashioning during his last years of Faustus and the Censor) and his letters. Such was the man: obdurate but far from insensitive. Conscientious, self-exacting, impatient with wrongheadedness, he could also ...
... essays (as with the constant refashioning during his last years of Faustus and the Censor) and his letters. Such was the man: obdurate but far from insensitive. Conscientious, self-exacting, impatient with wrongheadedness, he could also ...
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... character of his audience: 5 6 Julian Bell, Essays, Poems and Letters, ed. Quentin Bell (1938). WE, letter to mother, 7 Apr. 1939 (Houghton). how they (individual or group) would understand things; what they xvi introduction.
... character of his audience: 5 6 Julian Bell, Essays, Poems and Letters, ed. Quentin Bell (1938). WE, letter to mother, 7 Apr. 1939 (Houghton). how they (individual or group) would understand things; what they xvi introduction.
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... essays that would emerge as Complex Words, he noted that 'a word may become a sort of solid entity, able to direct ... Essays, ed. Michael Holquist; trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist (1981), 76. WE, 'The Hammer's Ring', in I. A. ...
... essays that would emerge as Complex Words, he noted that 'a word may become a sort of solid entity, able to direct ... Essays, ed. Michael Holquist; trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist (1981), 76. WE, 'The Hammer's Ring', in I. A. ...
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... essay: 'Empson has been the most militant of our critics, as can be seen at once by glancing at his critical style ... Essays (1962), .29 He professed from an early moment in his career,. 28 Robert M. Adams, 'Hero of the Word', NYRB, 32 ...
... essay: 'Empson has been the most militant of our critics, as can be seen at once by glancing at his critical style ... Essays (1962), .29 He professed from an early moment in his career,. 28 Robert M. Adams, 'Hero of the Word', NYRB, 32 ...
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