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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... Thank you for your friendly letter, and I am very glad you are willing to print the whole article. But will you please cut out one sentence, three or four pages before the end. It says something like 'This is Protestant, the other is ...
... Thank you for your friendly letter, and I am very glad you are willing to print the whole article. But will you please cut out one sentence, three or four pages before the end. It says something like 'This is Protestant, the other is ...
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... Thank you for the Times Crossword puzzles; I have sometimes finished a New York Times one, so I don't dislike them merely because they expect me to know famous names of baseball and Broadway. The Times (London) has a better style.'64 He ...
... Thank you for the Times Crossword puzzles; I have sometimes finished a New York Times one, so I don't dislike them merely because they expect me to know famous names of baseball and Broadway. The Times (London) has a better style.'64 He ...
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... Thank you for your psychological reactions; I liked particularly condone for condole, the frustrated attempt to leave out not before well, and the reading lake for cake.1 What happened (since you ask) was. 1 Trevelyan would take over ...
... Thank you for your psychological reactions; I liked particularly condone for condole, the frustrated attempt to leave out not before well, and the reading lake for cake.1 What happened (since you ask) was. 1 Trevelyan would take over ...
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... thank you very warmly) just to write to the W. E. A. myself at the same time: it seems a good thing to have done, if possible. You ask me who made gossip; I think none was necessary. The porters told the Master they had found ...
... thank you very warmly) just to write to the W. E. A. myself at the same time: it seems a good thing to have done, if possible. You ask me who made gossip; I think none was necessary. The porters told the Master they had found ...
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... thank you very much indeed for trying to arrange it. Evidently you are to be congratulated on a great success at Peking, if they are remodelling the English School on your recommendation. I hope my sympathy about the cheek-bone will be ...
... thank you very much indeed for trying to arrange it. Evidently you are to be congratulated on a great success at Peking, if they are remodelling the English School on your recommendation. I hope my sympathy about the cheek-bone will be ...
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