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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... remark (which was written from Eliot House at Harvard University, a place that his mother might have assumed to be pretty companionable): 'This habit of using you to think with doesn't make for very lively letters.'16 Thinking at or ...
... remark (which was written from Eliot House at Harvard University, a place that his mother might have assumed to be pretty companionable): 'This habit of using you to think with doesn't make for very lively letters.'16 Thinking at or ...
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... his introduction to. 32 Richard Strier, Resistant Structures: Particularity, Radicalism, and Renaissance Texts (1995), Essay 1: 'Tradition', 17, 21–2, 24–5. 50 The reviewer may have been alluding to Byron's remark xxvi introduction.
... his introduction to. 32 Richard Strier, Resistant Structures: Particularity, Radicalism, and Renaissance Texts (1995), Essay 1: 'Tradition', 17, 21–2, 24–5. 50 The reviewer may have been alluding to Byron's remark xxvi introduction.
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... remarks among other things: As for ourselves [the Empson family], everything is entirely friendly except for the ... remark on Keats's Endymion: 'such writing is a sort of mental masturbation––he is always f-gg-g his own imagination.––I ...
... remarks among other things: As for ourselves [the Empson family], everything is entirely friendly except for the ... remark on Keats's Endymion: 'such writing is a sort of mental masturbation––he is always f-gg-g his own imagination.––I ...
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... remarks that seemed interesting. And I should apologize for notes on such a scale, and say more of an impertinence to expect people to puzzle out my verses than to it was explain them at the end, and I should avoid the 6 7 October 1928.
... remarks that seemed interesting. And I should apologize for notes on such a scale, and say more of an impertinence to expect people to puzzle out my verses than to it was explain them at the end, and I should avoid the 6 7 October 1928.
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... a paper on a subject of his own choosing to the Heretics Society. These remarks adumbrate 'Milton and Bentley', in SVP, 149–91. 1 Edmund Blunden (1896–1974), poet, editor, journalist, was literary editor 20 29 January [1930]
... a paper on a subject of his own choosing to the Heretics Society. These remarks adumbrate 'Milton and Bentley', in SVP, 149–91. 1 Edmund Blunden (1896–1974), poet, editor, journalist, was literary editor 20 29 January [1930]
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