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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... reader who wonders why there is not a greater leavening here of family letters will be interested to know that one of the most personal letters Empson ever wrote to his wife reads as follows: Saturday 8th [December 1956] My dearest ...
... reader who wonders why there is not a greater leavening here of family letters will be interested to know that one of the most personal letters Empson ever wrote to his wife reads as follows: Saturday 8th [December 1956] My dearest ...
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... reader a bang on (His aversion to public formality went hand-in-hand with his passion for making use in his literary-critical exchanges solely of the language of everyone's everyday conversation. For him, criticism is continuous with ...
... reader a bang on (His aversion to public formality went hand-in-hand with his passion for making use in his literary-critical exchanges solely of the language of everyone's everyday conversation. For him, criticism is continuous with ...
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... reader if opinions differing from mine were strongly represented.'33 Now and then, indeed, he would say he found it 'good-humoured' for an antagonist to retaliate with a vigorous refutation or counter-argument. Just as one may call a ...
... reader if opinions differing from mine were strongly represented.'33 Now and then, indeed, he would say he found it 'good-humoured' for an antagonist to retaliate with a vigorous refutation or counter-argument. Just as one may call a ...
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... Reader in American Literature and Director of the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford) wrote to Empson when he was a research student, having picked up on a favourable reference in Empson's criticism to the poetry of Hart Crane: did ...
... Reader in American Literature and Director of the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford) wrote to Empson when he was a research student, having picked up on a favourable reference in Empson's criticism to the poetry of Hart Crane: did ...
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... Reader, please tell me if you know. In due course, I feel sure, there will come a time when a complete collection of Empson's letters will be called for in some form. In the meantime, this selection offers a fair gathering from the ...
... Reader, please tell me if you know. In due course, I feel sure, there will come a time when a complete collection of Empson's letters will be called for in some form. In the meantime, this selection offers a fair gathering from the ...
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