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. INTRODUCTION. Private letters often seem most exquisitely adapted to their setting when written most casually; it is exactly the extent to ... John Hayward. 1950) which gives an insight into her husband's habits of ...
John Haffenden. INTRODUCTION. Private letters often seem most exquisitely adapted to their setting when written most casually; it is exactly the extent to ... John Hayward. 1950) which gives an insight into her husband's habits of ...
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... John Hayward might serve as equivalents of a diary, or as drafts of a volume of travel-writings that he would put together at some later date. From time to time he had it in mind too that he would one day write his memoirs, but not ...
... John Hayward might serve as equivalents of a diary, or as drafts of a volume of travel-writings that he would put together at some later date. From time to time he had it in mind too that he would one day write his memoirs, but not ...
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... John Hayward had been prompt to make use of his letters for his own purposes. This passage, written from wartime China in May 1939, amounts to a deliciously disingenuous rebuke to Hayward, and it also shows how Empson could turn his ...
... John Hayward had been prompt to make use of his letters for his own purposes. This passage, written from wartime China in May 1939, amounts to a deliciously disingenuous rebuke to Hayward, and it also shows how Empson could turn his ...
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John Haffenden. how they (individual or group) would understand things; what they needed or liked to be told; what ... Hayward, a shrewd judge who saw the merits of Empson's chatty letters home from his years in the Far East, told another ...
John Haffenden. how they (individual or group) would understand things; what they needed or liked to be told; what ... Hayward, a shrewd judge who saw the merits of Empson's chatty letters home from his years in the Far East, told another ...
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... Hayward was mistaken in that last observation, for Empson did publish in Life & Letters in 1940 a fine propaganda ... John Hayward, 'Tarantula's Special News Service, Letter XXVI' (to Frank Morley), Dec. 1940 (King's). Of WE, JDH said ...
... Hayward was mistaken in that last observation, for Empson did publish in Life & Letters in 1940 a fine propaganda ... John Hayward, 'Tarantula's Special News Service, Letter XXVI' (to Frank Morley), Dec. 1940 (King's). Of WE, JDH said ...
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