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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... edition, tidily serried and all dressed up in scholarship, must have been composed in the best of all possible conditions: at an escritoire or equivalent, in study or library, and with calm of mind. William Empson's letters were put ...
... edition, tidily serried and all dressed up in scholarship, must have been composed in the best of all possible conditions: at an escritoire or equivalent, in study or library, and with calm of mind. William Empson's letters were put ...
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John Haffenden. when Professor C. B. Cox accepted his essay 'Donne in the New Edition' for publication in Critical Quarterly, Empson was prompt to follow up with a note that begged to apologize for a bit of bother: Thank you for your ...
John Haffenden. when Professor C. B. Cox accepted his essay 'Donne in the New Edition' for publication in Critical Quarterly, Empson was prompt to follow up with a note that begged to apologize for a bit of bother: Thank you for your ...
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... that Fredson Bowers, éminence grise among textual critics in America, seemed to have given no thought in his 51 WE, 'Statements in Words', SCW, 63. 1973 edition of the play (unlike Gill in her edition introduction xxxv.
... that Fredson Bowers, éminence grise among textual critics in America, seemed to have given no thought in his 51 WE, 'Statements in Words', SCW, 63. 1973 edition of the play (unlike Gill in her edition introduction xxxv.
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John Haffenden. 1973 edition of the play (unlike Gill in her edition for the New Mermaid series in 1965) to the implications of the line, and did not explain why he had ruled against it. 'Faustus is not allowed to say “Come, I think ...
John Haffenden. 1973 edition of the play (unlike Gill in her edition for the New Mermaid series in 1965) to the implications of the line, and did not explain why he had ruled against it. 'Faustus is not allowed to say “Come, I think ...
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... edition of 100 copies, privately printed by The Fox & Daffodil Press, Kinuta-mura, near Tokyo. 8 July: returns to London, where he spends the next three years as a freelance writer. May: Poems published in London. October: Some Versions ...
... edition of 100 copies, privately printed by The Fox & Daffodil Press, Kinuta-mura, near Tokyo. 8 July: returns to London, where he spends the next three years as a freelance writer. May: Poems published in London. October: Some Versions ...
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