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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... agree that in principle it was very wicked of the Editor to change a word, but I hadn't noticed it and do not now think it disastrous. As I remember I put “I hope I do not annoy anyone by remarking that the Cross of Christ [in Thomas's ...
... agree that in principle it was very wicked of the Editor to change a word, but I hadn't noticed it and do not now think it disastrous. As I remember I put “I hope I do not annoy anyone by remarking that the Cross of Christ [in Thomas's ...
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... agree with what you say about the Faber Book,' 67 WE, letter to David Pirie, 19 Apr. 1969 (Pirie). 68 G. S. Fraser, A Stranger and Afraid: the autobiography of an intellectual (1983), 182. 69 S. M. Stern, letter to WE, 2 Jan. 1962 ...
... agree with what you say about the Faber Book,' 67 WE, letter to David Pirie, 19 Apr. 1969 (Pirie). 68 G. S. Fraser, A Stranger and Afraid: the autobiography of an intellectual (1983), 182. 69 S. M. Stern, letter to WE, 2 Jan. 1962 ...
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... agree with. Firstly I should have said it was a matter of proportion, that a writer should not be either static or dynamic, and then 'completely assimilate manner to matter'; he should completely assimilate dynamics into his stasis ...
... agree with. Firstly I should have said it was a matter of proportion, that a writer should not be either static or dynamic, and then 'completely assimilate manner to matter'; he should completely assimilate dynamics into his stasis ...
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... agree with you or a standard of goodness common to all systems of belief.4 I am thinking here of the evidence for a belief as what will convince those who at the time believe something else, but that is hardly fair to any belief. The ...
... agree with you or a standard of goodness common to all systems of belief.4 I am thinking here of the evidence for a belief as what will convince those who at the time believe something else, but that is hardly fair to any belief. The ...
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