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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... letters (a thing I do only by effort) ... Letter to I. A. Richards, ? September 1948 It is easy to feel (though admittedly it goes utterly against everyone's experience) that all the letters in a collected or selected edition, tidily ...
... letters (a thing I do only by effort) ... Letter to I. A. Richards, ? September 1948 It is easy to feel (though admittedly it goes utterly against everyone's experience) that all the letters in a collected or selected edition, tidily ...
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... letter to his publisher.'2 Pai gar is a white moonshine made from millet, with a taste like gasoline; it would serve well to fuel a heated letter, and in this case Empson (at the age of 43) was almost certainly 'banging out' to Ian ...
... letter to his publisher.'2 Pai gar is a white moonshine made from millet, with a taste like gasoline; it would serve well to fuel a heated letter, and in this case Empson (at the age of 43) was almost certainly 'banging out' to Ian ...
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... letters to Hayward––this is made clear in a letter to his mother just a few weeks earlier (7 April 1939): 'Thanks for the Sunday Times cutting. Rather annoying to have the friends selling the letters, that must be John Hayward. I think ...
... letters to Hayward––this is made clear in a letter to his mother just a few weeks earlier (7 April 1939): 'Thanks for the Sunday Times cutting. Rather annoying to have the friends selling the letters, that must be John Hayward. I think ...
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... letters he ever wrote took the form of the persuasively coded series of 'Letter' poems addressed to his Cambridge friend Desmond Lee, whose company he desired with unfulfilled high intensity: they are the only evidence that survives of ...
... letters he ever wrote took the form of the persuasively coded series of 'Letter' poems addressed to his Cambridge friend Desmond Lee, whose company he desired with unfulfilled high intensity: they are the only evidence that survives of ...
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... Letter XXVI' (to Frank Morley), Dec. 1940 (King's). Of WE, JDH said too: 'In many ways he's an undisciplined writer and needs encouragement, which is easier to give at a distance, as this does not involve one in having to drink too much ...
... Letter XXVI' (to Frank Morley), Dec. 1940 (King's). Of WE, JDH said too: 'In many ways he's an undisciplined writer and needs encouragement, which is easier to give at a distance, as this does not involve one in having to drink too much ...
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