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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... perhaps an operation for varicose veins?––and almost passed over its huge significance. Literature, literary criticism, the free exchange of ideas––what Empson called 'the tradition of fair public debate'––are what most engaged his 4 WE ...
... perhaps an operation for varicose veins?––and almost passed over its huge significance. Literature, literary criticism, the free exchange of ideas––what Empson called 'the tradition of fair public debate'––are what most engaged his 4 WE ...
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... perhaps Julian's lot were more likely to do that kind of thing. Darwin I remember, though, a different kind of man, said it had been a great help to him never to destroy a single letter ... By the way, what on earth was the disease of ...
... perhaps Julian's lot were more likely to do that kind of thing. Darwin I remember, though, a different kind of man, said it had been a great help to him never to destroy a single letter ... By the way, what on earth was the disease of ...
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... (perhaps Mrs Gross felt his contradictory mannerliness betrayed a hint of irresolution), the piece was not in fact published. For Empson, none of his critical writings, whether in book, essay or letter, was ever to be quite finished ...
... (perhaps Mrs Gross felt his contradictory mannerliness betrayed a hint of irresolution), the piece was not in fact published. For Empson, none of his critical writings, whether in book, essay or letter, was ever to be quite finished ...
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... perhaps even contemptuous pomposity of 'solemn lies', and the coarseness of the throwaway insult of 'jabber'. Several examples of letters that were redrafted before being posted survive among his papers (a few are given in the text ...
... perhaps even contemptuous pomposity of 'solemn lies', and the coarseness of the throwaway insult of 'jabber'. Several examples of letters that were redrafted before being posted survive among his papers (a few are given in the text ...
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... perhaps not till after I am dead.' Famously, James Joyce loathed the convention of marking dialogue in fiction by means of the 'eyesore' of 'perverted' commas: setting off speech with dashes was far prettier. Empson, in contriving a ...
... perhaps not till after I am dead.' Famously, James Joyce loathed the convention of marking dialogue in fiction by means of the 'eyesore' of 'perverted' commas: setting off speech with dashes was far prettier. Empson, in contriving a ...
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