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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... allowed for the paradoxical compliment that rudeness between equals need not be personal. On occasion, an opponent would snap back that Empson had got the completely wrong end of the stick: this too seemed to please him no end. The ...
... allowed for the paradoxical compliment that rudeness between equals need not be personal. On occasion, an opponent would snap back that Empson had got the completely wrong end of the stick: this too seemed to please him no end. The ...
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... allowed that abbreviation can sharpen sense––but there was a line to be drawn. In 1971 he submitted a remarkable memoir, 'Orwell at the BBC', for inclusion in a collection of essays to be entitled The World of George Orwell, edited by ...
... allowed that abbreviation can sharpen sense––but there was a line to be drawn. In 1971 he submitted a remarkable memoir, 'Orwell at the BBC', for inclusion in a collection of essays to be entitled The World of George Orwell, edited by ...
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... allowed to say “Come, I think Hell's a fable”, and there's no sign at all that “Come” has been rejected. The locution was then new, I gather from the NED, and has a powerful effect on the tone, implying “We are both educated people ...
... allowed to say “Come, I think Hell's a fable”, and there's no sign at all that “Come” has been rejected. The locution was then new, I gather from the NED, and has a powerful effect on the tone, implying “We are both educated people ...
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... allowed himself such a glib gloss when criticizing a literary text.) It is relevant to mention here the question of Empson's inclination to quote rather freely from memory, and on occasion to forgo checking his quotations before ...
... allowed himself such a glib gloss when criticizing a literary text.) It is relevant to mention here the question of Empson's inclination to quote rather freely from memory, and on occasion to forgo checking his quotations before ...
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... allowed them to go on smoking would be generally welcome. Britain, as a large consumer of tobacco, is in a position to make the demands of an important customer, and growers willing to accept. 73 N. W. Pirie, letter to WE, 20 May 1983 ...
... allowed them to go on smoking would be generally welcome. Britain, as a large consumer of tobacco, is in a position to make the demands of an important customer, and growers willing to accept. 73 N. W. Pirie, letter to WE, 20 May 1983 ...
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