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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... later grant-in-aid; and no less to the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Society of Authors, the Leverhulme Trust, and the Research Fund of Sheffield University for awards towards the high costs of my research on Empson over the years ...
... later grant-in-aid; and no less to the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Society of Authors, the Leverhulme Trust, and the Research Fund of Sheffield University for awards towards the high costs of my research on Empson over the years ...
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... later date. From time to time he had it in mind too that he would one day write his memoirs, but not before reaching the age of 80 (when he felt a person's best work would be over and done with). He told his publisher in 1973, at the ...
... later date. From time to time he had it in mind too that he would one day write his memoirs, but not before reaching the age of 80 (when he felt a person's best work would be over and done with). He told his publisher in 1973, at the ...
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... later year: 'when I replied that I was as atheistic as he was, and equally opposed to the Christian resurgence, the correspondence became amicable, and we had several friendly meetings thereafter.'35 That too was characteristic of ...
... later year: 'when I replied that I was as atheistic as he was, and equally opposed to the Christian resurgence, the correspondence became amicable, and we had several friendly meetings thereafter.'35 That too was characteristic of ...
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... later year, when reporting to me that Empson's letter had been lost or thrown away, Anne Ridler explained the situation by way of a marvellously ambiguous run of subjunctives: 'alas, I don't remember his letter about the 1951 supplement ...
... later year, when reporting to me that Empson's letter had been lost or thrown away, Anne Ridler explained the situation by way of a marvellously ambiguous run of subjunctives: 'alas, I don't remember his letter about the 1951 supplement ...
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... later works include The Apes of God (1930) and Revenge for Love (1937). His work as an artist includes celebrated portraits of T. S. Eliot and of Edith Sitwell. That is a very deep word about Sibyl['s] Leaves,6 the 4 4 September 1928.
... later works include The Apes of God (1930) and Revenge for Love (1937). His work as an artist includes celebrated portraits of T. S. Eliot and of Edith Sitwell. That is a very deep word about Sibyl['s] Leaves,6 the 4 4 September 1928.
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