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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... told his publisher in 1973, at the age of 66: 'When I am past anything else maybe I will be able to dictate my memoirs.'4 He died at the age of 77, with his life's work in literary criticism not yet finished off; but even so, given his ...
... told his publisher in 1973, at the age of 66: 'When I am past anything else maybe I will be able to dictate my memoirs.'4 He died at the age of 77, with his life's work in literary criticism not yet finished off; but even so, given his ...
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... told; what arguments would impress or sway or incite them. Fit communication needs the fullest responsiveness, with whatever portions of play and pressure the case may call for. A letter must needs address itself, in every possible ...
... told; what arguments would impress or sway or incite them. Fit communication needs the fullest responsiveness, with whatever portions of play and pressure the case may call for. A letter must needs address itself, in every possible ...
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... told them I had an apparently permanent attack of cramp. In fact I had much rather you would talk to me. He closes abruptly with a tease, a bribe, a cliffhanger: an invitation to reciprocate. By describing the exotic allure of the ...
... told them I had an apparently permanent attack of cramp. In fact I had much rather you would talk to me. He closes abruptly with a tease, a bribe, a cliffhanger: an invitation to reciprocate. By describing the exotic allure of the ...
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... told before the children. I am glad too, Sir, that the turbulence somehow included a rebuke to your reviewer for saying that John Fuller's book of poems was a form of masturbation; mean-minded jabber of this type might do if the man ...
... told before the children. I am glad too, Sir, that the turbulence somehow included a rebuke to your reviewer for saying that John Fuller's book of poems was a form of masturbation; mean-minded jabber of this type might do if the man ...
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... told me once, 'I remember discussing Max Beerbohm with Empson in some letters, which I am sorry to have lost. Here are one or two things he said in them: “Max was wrong (in the parody of Kipling in A Christmas Garland) to show Kipling ...
... told me once, 'I remember discussing Max Beerbohm with Empson in some letters, which I am sorry to have lost. Here are one or two things he said in them: “Max was wrong (in the parody of Kipling in A Christmas Garland) to show Kipling ...
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