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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... writing can be gauged from this directive to a friend, posted from Japan in the summer of 1933: 'Write via canada: when letters go by Siberia all one's mind is clouded with a doubt, and after one letter is lost the correspondence is ...
... writing can be gauged from this directive to a friend, posted from Japan in the summer of 1933: 'Write via canada: when letters go by Siberia all one's mind is clouded with a doubt, and after one letter is lost the correspondence is ...
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... writing a letter. Still, it is known to be typical: he would read and write at all hours of the day and night, just as it suited him; and Hetta's few words conjure a picture of his indefatigable habits of work, his possible slight ...
... writing a letter. Still, it is known to be typical: he would read and write at all hours of the day and night, just as it suited him; and Hetta's few words conjure a picture of his indefatigable habits of work, his possible slight ...
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... write his memoirs, but not before reaching the age of 80 (when he felt a person's best work would be over and done ... writing any memoirs. His memory for persons and encounters was selective, and in any case it would have gone against ...
... write his memoirs, but not before reaching the age of 80 (when he felt a person's best work would be over and done ... writing any memoirs. His memory for persons and encounters was selective, and in any case it would have gone against ...
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... write letters. And what is this business of keeping letters? Do you keep letters? It must be a widespread practice judging from biographies. Rather an ugly one I think. It certainly couldn't be done in my mother's house, where any writing ...
... write letters. And what is this business of keeping letters? Do you keep letters? It must be a widespread practice judging from biographies. Rather an ugly one I think. It certainly couldn't be done in my mother's house, where any writing ...
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... write to them and not at them)––or at least not to bore them––and to present them with a positive face. It is ill manners to convey ill thoughts: merely an unwarranted affliction. A letter is a gift; it should please, and should ...
... write to them and not at them)––or at least not to bore them––and to present them with a positive face. It is ill manners to convey ill thoughts: merely an unwarranted affliction. A letter is a gift; it should please, and should ...
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