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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... meant he proposed to reserve to himself the right to have the coveted last word. More commonly, he would go in for firm disdain rather than the wholly gracious gesture. This closing sentence of a letter to another scholar strikes fair ...
... meant he proposed to reserve to himself the right to have the coveted last word. More commonly, he would go in for firm disdain rather than the wholly gracious gesture. This closing sentence of a letter to another scholar strikes fair ...
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John Haffenden. [Donne] meant nothing at all in the love-poems; nobody in the class must bother, please, about what he meant until he came out in favour of Christianity and burning people alive”. I really think it a political danger to ...
John Haffenden. [Donne] meant nothing at all in the love-poems; nobody in the class must bother, please, about what he meant until he came out in favour of Christianity and burning people alive”. I really think it a political danger to ...
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... meant to sound aunt-like, placid and in a way experienced; I am admitting to feeling respect for heroic behaviour, but do not want to present myself as heroic. 'Of course I don't deny that, but this is no occasion to get excited about ...
... meant to sound aunt-like, placid and in a way experienced; I am admitting to feeling respect for heroic behaviour, but do not want to present myself as heroic. 'Of course I don't deny that, but this is no occasion to get excited about ...
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... meant was that the only good part was the final Milk Wood. How he came to think that I can't imagine: I suppose he thinks if a critic says something simply that proves he means to be ironical. Then he said 'How do you manage to get it ...
... meant was that the only good part was the final Milk Wood. How he came to think that I can't imagine: I suppose he thinks if a critic says something simply that proves he means to be ironical. Then he said 'How do you manage to get it ...
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... meant to imply that I have had the pick of every possible Empson missive: that is not the case (it would be beyond human possibility for all of them to have survived). All the same, I believe I have gathered up copies of the ...
... meant to imply that I have had the pick of every possible Empson missive: that is not the case (it would be beyond human possibility for all of them to have survived). All the same, I believe I have gathered up copies of the ...
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