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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... thought that would be trying the patience a bit too high. It would be rude simply to leave while the British Council wants me here and can't send a substitute; but it is annoying not to know whether my book [Complex Words] has been ...
... thought that would be trying the patience a bit too high. It would be rude simply to leave while the British Council wants me here and can't send a substitute; but it is annoying not to know whether my book [Complex Words] has been ...
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... thought at once 'This must be by Gorer', and so it was. There are rather few writers now who have an immediately recognisable style like that, though when we were young there were quite a lot. It struck me as unusual nowadays, so I thought ...
... thought at once 'This must be by Gorer', and so it was. There are rather few writers now who have an immediately recognisable style like that, though when we were young there were quite a lot. It struck me as unusual nowadays, so I thought ...
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... thought of a man like Dr Johnson, and probably the parts of his thought which are by this time most seriously and rightly admired, were not carried on his official verbal machinery but on colloquial phrases ... that he would have ...
... thought of a man like Dr Johnson, and probably the parts of his thought which are by this time most seriously and rightly admired, were not carried on his official verbal machinery but on colloquial phrases ... that he would have ...
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... thought. 'Heaven me' is meant to sound aunt-like, placid and in a way experienced; I am admitting to feeling respect for heroic behaviour, but do not want to present myself as heroic. 'Of course I don't deny that, but this is no ...
... thought. 'Heaven me' is meant to sound aunt-like, placid and in a way experienced; I am admitting to feeling respect for heroic behaviour, but do not want to present myself as heroic. 'Of course I don't deny that, but this is no ...
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... thought of as similar, not because they are thought of as opposite. At the same time it is odd that black and white should be thought of as similar; it may have something. 1 Sigmund Freud chanced in 1910 upon a pamphlet by the ...
... thought of as similar, not because they are thought of as opposite. At the same time it is odd that black and white should be thought of as similar; it may have something. 1 Sigmund Freud chanced in 1910 upon a pamphlet by the ...
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