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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... hope that his assault would not come to the author's notice. He would own up to what he wrote, and would even take the trouble to draw his criticisms to an opponent's attention. For many years (from the mid-1950s), for instance, he ...
... hope that his assault would not come to the author's notice. He would own up to what he wrote, and would even take the trouble to draw his criticisms to an opponent's attention. For many years (from the mid-1950s), for instance, he ...
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... hope you are going on all right. William Empson. The big world picture is still baleful, but in the foreground are manifestations of a progressive energy which Empson reports with ready will: a 'friendly and placid' working and social ...
... hope you are going on all right. William Empson. The big world picture is still baleful, but in the foreground are manifestations of a progressive energy which Empson reports with ready will: a 'friendly and placid' working and social ...
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... hope I do not annoy anyone by remarking that the Cross of Christ [in Thomas's poem 'Altarwise by Owl-light'] is also the male sexual organ” and he made it “explaining”. This makes me heavyhanded and rather suggests I hold some theory of ...
... hope I do not annoy anyone by remarking that the Cross of Christ [in Thomas's poem 'Altarwise by Owl-light'] is also the male sexual organ” and he made it “explaining”. This makes me heavyhanded and rather suggests I hold some theory of ...
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... hope that before I die I shall read another book of your poems––even what we have is, with Auden and T. S. E., the best of the lot.') In a later year, when reporting to me that Empson's letter had been lost or thrown away, Anne Ridler ...
... hope that before I die I shall read another book of your poems––even what we have is, with Auden and T. S. E., the best of the lot.') In a later year, when reporting to me that Empson's letter had been lost or thrown away, Anne Ridler ...
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... hope that many others may come to light after the appearance of this volume. One batch of letters I would dearly love to recover, for instance, is that between Empson and his friend John Davenport. At a Sotheby's sale on 28 July 1977 ...
... hope that many others may come to light after the appearance of this volume. One batch of letters I would dearly love to recover, for instance, is that between Empson and his friend John Davenport. At a Sotheby's sale on 28 July 1977 ...
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