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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... matter of avoiding misunderstanding. I am sure that someone needs to speak up against the dead weight of the fashions of two generations.'3 Feeling he may have been just too stern, and even a touch tear-jerking, he immediately added as ...
... matter of avoiding misunderstanding. I am sure that someone needs to speak up against the dead weight of the fashions of two generations.'3 Feeling he may have been just too stern, and even a touch tear-jerking, he immediately added as ...
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... matters of principle, especially during the post-war years when he would cry down what he dubbed 'neoChristian' critics ... matter; like John Stuart Mill's father, he judged Christianity the ne plus ultra of wickedness. Indeed, Empson ...
... matters of principle, especially during the post-war years when he would cry down what he dubbed 'neoChristian' critics ... matter; like John Stuart Mill's father, he judged Christianity the ne plus ultra of wickedness. Indeed, Empson ...
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... matter of epistolary etiquette. He was not one to attack a book in print and then 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 ...
... matter of epistolary etiquette. He was not one to attack a book in print and then 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 ...
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... matter is still confusing unless what happened is said plainly. I really think that this shortened version ought to be printed; a publisher has no business to force me to print what I know to be wrong merely for convenience. Of course ...
... matter is still confusing unless what happened is said plainly. I really think that this shortened version ought to be printed; a publisher has no business to force me to print what I know to be wrong merely for convenience. Of course ...
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... matter because the man did a lot of other bad things, not mentioned. We learn, secondly, that the life of Richard III by Sir Thomas More, or partly in his handwriting, contains a lot of lies; but this does not matter because the effect ...
... matter because the man did a lot of other bad things, not mentioned. We learn, secondly, that the life of Richard III by Sir Thomas More, or partly in his handwriting, contains a lot of lies; but this does not matter because the effect ...
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