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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... one's mind is clouded with a doubt, and after one letter is lost the correspondence is broken. But it is fine in a way to think of a real use being found for our letters, warming bandits.'1 He died just before the advent of the ...
... one's mind is clouded with a doubt, and after one letter is lost the correspondence is broken. But it is fine in a way to think of a real use being found for our letters, warming bandits.'1 He died just before the advent of the ...
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... one's heroes. He wrote letters for two primary and proper purposes: for conversation and for literary-critical controversion. Often the two purposes would amount to the same thing. An acute social being, he was always at pains to be ...
... one's heroes. He wrote letters for two primary and proper purposes: for conversation and for literary-critical controversion. Often the two purposes would amount to the same thing. An acute social being, he was always at pains to be ...
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... one's convictions. Along with what I call the 'conversation letters' in this selection (giving news and views of all sorts, from East and West), the more substantial, and intellectually and critically far-reaching, series of letters has ...
... one's convictions. Along with what I call the 'conversation letters' in this selection (giving news and views of all sorts, from East and West), the more substantial, and intellectually and critically far-reaching, series of letters has ...
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... one's own and other people's feelings, when a fragment of the truth is in question .. Empson became to a marked degree notorious for his eagerness to enter into conflict with other critics on matters of principle, especially during the ...
... one's own and other people's feelings, when a fragment of the truth is in question .. Empson became to a marked degree notorious for his eagerness to enter into conflict with other critics on matters of principle, especially during the ...
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... one's writing: 'putting in the careless ease often amounts to discovering what the point of the whole thing was and rewriting it completely.'67 The issue of this volume of selected letters is by no means meant to imply that I have had ...
... one's writing: 'putting in the careless ease often amounts to discovering what the point of the whole thing was and rewriting it completely.'67 The issue of this volume of selected letters is by no means meant to imply that I have had ...
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