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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... express by the very act of incorporating her language, her dialect, her attitude, within his own utterance. In his essay 'Statements in Words' 15 STA, 5. 16 WE, letter to mother, 8 Nov. 1939. 17 WE, letter to mother, 27 Jun. 1939; TS ...
... express by the very act of incorporating her language, her dialect, her attitude, within his own utterance. In his essay 'Statements in Words' 15 STA, 5. 16 WE, letter to mother, 8 Nov. 1939. 17 WE, letter to mother, 27 Jun. 1939; TS ...
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... express precisely what he meant in any piece of writing that was destined for publication (including letters). He was in fact jealous of the exact words he set down on the page, and would now and then upbraid literary editors .'57 57 WE ...
... express precisely what he meant in any piece of writing that was destined for publication (including letters). He was in fact jealous of the exact words he set down on the page, and would now and then upbraid literary editors .'57 57 WE ...
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... express the coarse voice of the general public. What we learn from the review is first that no evidence is any longer offered for the belief that Richard killed the Princes in the Tower. What every history book, however brief, always ...
... express the coarse voice of the general public. What we learn from the review is first that no evidence is any longer offered for the belief that Richard killed the Princes in the Tower. What every history book, however brief, always ...
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... express two systems of values, an agony or indecision of judgement. Freud and Ambivalence, in fact, I wish you had driven that home.3 But what you say about 'No wonder of it'; he trusted in the values created (out of the focus but in ...
... express two systems of values, an agony or indecision of judgement. Freud and Ambivalence, in fact, I wish you had driven that home.3 But what you say about 'No wonder of it'; he trusted in the values created (out of the focus but in ...
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... express contraries by identical means of representation.' In a number of languages, Egyptian, Semitic and Indo-European, there are relics of the primitive world in which a number of words have two meanings, 'one of which says the exact ...
... express contraries by identical means of representation.' In a number of languages, Egyptian, Semitic and Indo-European, there are relics of the primitive world in which a number of words have two meanings, 'one of which says the exact ...
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