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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... poet and critic D. J. Enright, who had enquired about the meaning and provenance of the phrase, Empson explained: I can't say much more than that it isn't a misprint ('Heaven me, when a man is willing [sic] to die about .. .'). Of ...
... poet and critic D. J. Enright, who had enquired about the meaning and provenance of the phrase, Empson explained: I can't say much more than that it isn't a misprint ('Heaven me, when a man is willing [sic] to die about .. .'). Of ...
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... poet failing to show up the fussiness of the patois employed, he was seen to be speaking just like mother. For a final example of his great anxiety to make himself understood––to take pains to fine-tune mood, tone, and implication––a ...
... poet failing to show up the fussiness of the patois employed, he was seen to be speaking just like mother. For a final example of his great anxiety to make himself understood––to take pains to fine-tune mood, tone, and implication––a ...
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... gathering from the prodigious range of ideas, activities, and interests explored and expounded in the letters of a poet and critic of genius. A NOTE ON THE TEXT The considerable majority of Empson's introduction xlix.
... gathering from the prodigious range of ideas, activities, and interests explored and expounded in the letters of a poet and critic of genius. A NOTE ON THE TEXT The considerable majority of Empson's introduction xlix.
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... poet's heart is in hiding from Life, has chosen a safer way, and that the greater danger is the greater exposure to temptation and error than a more adventurous, less sheltered course (sheltered by Faith?) brings with it. Another ...
... poet's heart is in hiding from Life, has chosen a safer way, and that the greater danger is the greater exposure to temptation and error than a more adventurous, less sheltered course (sheltered by Faith?) brings with it. Another ...
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... poet, was killed in the First World War. His writings were brought together in Speculations, ed. by Herbert Read (1924). Admired by Ezra Pound and TSE, he hailed the demise of humanism and the ascendancy of classicism (including a ...
... poet, was killed in the First World War. His writings were brought together in Speculations, ed. by Herbert Read (1924). Admired by Ezra Pound and TSE, he hailed the demise of humanism and the ascendancy of classicism (including a ...
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