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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... , to the character of his audience: 5 6 Julian Bell, Essays, Poems and Letters, ed. Quentin Bell (1938). WE, letter to mother, 7 Apr. 1939 (Houghton). how they (individual or group) would understand things; what they xvi introduction.
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... understand. One thing is, I have to read so much Mandarin English Prose now, especially in literary criticism, and am so accustomed to being shocked by its emptiness, that I feel I must do otherwise at all costs. There was thus a ...
... understand. One thing is, I have to read so much Mandarin English Prose now, especially in literary criticism, and am so accustomed to being shocked by its emptiness, that I feel I must do otherwise at all costs. There was thus a ...
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... understand what was going on, in the way of collecting gossip and so forth, at all. As for the Body, they obeyed their own rules, poor creatures; I should like to, but cannot, feel indignation at the workings of a system with whose ...
... understand what was going on, in the way of collecting gossip and so forth, at all. As for the Body, they obeyed their own rules, poor creatures; I should like to, but cannot, feel indignation at the workings of a system with whose ...
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... understand they had extremely Broad Minds. Let me rein in my growing bitterness (it has been all my own fault, and I ought to have taken decent care of another person's interests if not of my own) and say how much I admired Practical ...
... understand they had extremely Broad Minds. Let me rein in my growing bitterness (it has been all my own fault, and I ought to have taken decent care of another person's interests if not of my own) and say how much I admired Practical ...
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... understand the difference between Thought and Feeling, and you have got to have some way of using that distinction if you are to know where you are. Remember me to Mrs Richards Magdalene TO I. A. RICHARDS 65 Marchmont Street, W. C. 1 ...
... understand the difference between Thought and Feeling, and you have got to have some way of using that distinction if you are to know where you are. Remember me to Mrs Richards Magdalene TO I. A. RICHARDS 65 Marchmont Street, W. C. 1 ...
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