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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... give to the different matters in hand, which is so precise. Similarly in conversation this more refined sort of ... gives an insight into her husband's habits of Introduction.
... give to the different matters in hand, which is so precise. Similarly in conversation this more refined sort of ... gives an insight into her husband's habits of Introduction.
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... give and take of ideas. Good writing also meant approximation to the spoken word, everyday intercourse, and not to any mode of specialized discourse. Roy Campbell, who got to know Empson at the end of the war, would extol his sure ...
... give and take of ideas. Good writing also meant approximation to the spoken word, everyday intercourse, and not to any mode of specialized discourse. Roy Campbell, who got to know Empson at the end of the war, would extol his sure ...
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... give further evidence of the efforts he put into adding persuasive force to an argument, or else tweaking its tone. One undated letter to John Hayward (not included here), written in 1951, survives in a draft version (there may have ...
... give further evidence of the efforts he put into adding persuasive force to an argument, or else tweaking its tone. One undated letter to John Hayward (not included here), written in 1951, survives in a draft version (there may have ...
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... give it back soon I said. But no other kind of apology seemed necessary to anyone; as I had assumed of course, but in a letter to England, it now occurs to me, that might look a Significant Detail' (carbon in Houghton). WE, letter to ...
... give it back soon I said. But no other kind of apology seemed necessary to anyone; as I had assumed of course, but in a letter to England, it now occurs to me, that might look a Significant Detail' (carbon in Houghton). WE, letter to ...
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... give up writing for ever and Arnold Bennett for three whole days.” '72 Given the remarkably wide scope of Empson's interests, it would be most interesting too to know exactly what he had asked his old friend N. W. Pirie (an agricultural ...
... give up writing for ever and Arnold Bennett for three whole days.” '72 Given the remarkably wide scope of Empson's interests, it would be most interesting too to know exactly what he had asked his old friend N. W. Pirie (an agricultural ...
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