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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... a constant 2 3 HE, undated letter to Walter Brown, 'Friday night' ? Apr. 1950 (Hull). WE, draft letter to Irene Skolnick, 31 Aug. 1967 (TS in Houghton). eye on posterity; that he would talk himself up or xiv introduction.
... a constant 2 3 HE, undated letter to Walter Brown, 'Friday night' ? Apr. 1950 (Hull). WE, draft letter to Irene Skolnick, 31 Aug. 1967 (TS in Houghton). eye on posterity; that he would talk himself up or xiv introduction.
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John Haffenden. eye on posterity; that he would talk himself up or put on airs––though it has to be said that he could sometimes talk for effect (as the phrase has it). All the same, he was not so innocent as not to be aware that his ...
John Haffenden. eye on posterity; that he would talk himself up or put on airs––though it has to be said that he could sometimes talk for effect (as the phrase has it). All the same, he was not so innocent as not to be aware that his ...
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... talk to me. He closes abruptly with a tease, a bribe, a cliffhanger: an invitation to reciprocate. By describing the exotic allure of the landscape, and by holding back the tantalizing stories he has up his sleeve––a bear and bandits ...
... talk to me. He closes abruptly with a tease, a bribe, a cliffhanger: an invitation to reciprocate. By describing the exotic allure of the landscape, and by holding back the tantalizing stories he has up his sleeve––a bear and bandits ...
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... talk, just as literary values should never be separated from all human values. He loathed the pretensions of a specialized discourse, and would have concurred with Orwell that 'the inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism'.27) These ...
... talk, just as literary values should never be separated from all human values. He loathed the pretensions of a specialized discourse, and would have concurred with Orwell that 'the inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism'.27) These ...
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... talk to Adam, I feel sure that this letter will do no good, but at least that it will leave you “without excuse”.'41 Like the boy disclosing that the emperor has no clothes, Empson the truth-dealer declared the Christian God to be a ...
... talk to Adam, I feel sure that this letter will do no good, but at least that it will leave you “without excuse”.'41 Like the boy disclosing that the emperor has no clothes, Empson the truth-dealer declared the Christian God to be a ...
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