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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... theory of the sort myself but otherwise does no harm. I can't see that it removes any obscurity, either, though.'58 Still, Janet Adam Smith was a friend of his (and widow of another good friend, Michael Roberts), and he respected her ...
... theory of the sort myself but otherwise does no harm. I can't see that it removes any obscurity, either, though.'58 Still, Janet Adam Smith was a friend of his (and widow of another good friend, Michael Roberts), and he respected her ...
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... theory would be provided if the Government banned the importation of tobacco which had been sprayed. The growers would need only a year's grace, and it would be relatively simple for the excise authorities to decide, at the point of ...
... theory would be provided if the Government banned the importation of tobacco which had been sprayed. The growers would need only a year's grace, and it would be relatively simple for the excise authorities to decide, at the point of ...
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... theories which make conversion respectable are Prevenient Grace and some form of naturalism, and neither alone are ... theory of value, since it provides for estimating good rather than calculating it, seems designed to do good rather ...
... theories which make conversion respectable are Prevenient Grace and some form of naturalism, and neither alone are ... theory of value, since it provides for estimating good rather than calculating it, seems designed to do good rather ...
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... theory of good assumes a mathematical basis which may well be much too crude. If so it is very likely to cause a ... Theories of Value': 'It may be that the human mind can recognise actually incommensurable values, and that the chief ...
... theory of good assumes a mathematical basis which may well be much too crude. If so it is very likely to cause a ... Theories of Value': 'It may be that the human mind can recognise actually incommensurable values, and that the chief ...
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... theory of value as a guiding light, but with this extreme degree of caution, that I think it will be most valuable: so that for them one can make the act of faith of believing it pragmatically true. And it is to them that the art and ...
... theory of value as a guiding light, but with this extreme degree of caution, that I think it will be most valuable: so that for them one can make the act of faith of believing it pragmatically true. And it is to them that the art and ...
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