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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... Written Archives Centre, Caversham, Reading (Jacqueline Kavanagh, Written Archives Officer; Gwyniver Jones, Assistant-in-Charge, Enquiries; John Jordan, Enquiry Assistant); Beinecke Library, Yale University; Department of Manuscripts ...
... Written Archives Centre, Caversham, Reading (Jacqueline Kavanagh, Written Archives Officer; Gwyniver Jones, Assistant-in-Charge, Enquiries; John Jordan, Enquiry Assistant); Beinecke Library, Yale University; Department of Manuscripts ...
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... written, and often re-written, in university digs, bed-and-breakfast establishments, squats, monasteries, hostels, huts, and basements; on mountains, on ships, in trains, in planes; in Cambridge, London, Tokyo, Peking; in Cambodia ...
... written, and often re-written, in university digs, bed-and-breakfast establishments, squats, monasteries, hostels, huts, and basements; on mountains, on ships, in trains, in planes; in Cambridge, London, Tokyo, Peking; in Cambodia ...
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... writing any memoirs. His memory for persons and encounters was selective, and in any case it would have gone against ... written just two days after his wife Hetta had given birth to a child, Simon, by her lover Peter Duval Smith. The ...
... writing any memoirs. His memory for persons and encounters was selective, and in any case it would have gone against ... written just two days after his wife Hetta had given birth to a child, Simon, by her lover Peter Duval Smith. The ...
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... written from wartime China in May 1939, amounts to a deliciously disingenuous rebuke to Hayward, and it also shows how Empson could turn his mind all round a question and see it from other points of view––in this case, by admitting the ...
... written from wartime China in May 1939, amounts to a deliciously disingenuous rebuke to Hayward, and it also shows how Empson could turn his mind all round a question and see it from other points of view––in this case, by admitting the ...
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... written for the Central Office of Information and circulated far and wide by the British Council: Mr Empson is one of the few English writers whose conversation is on a level with his writing. It is rare nowadays for anyone except an ...
... written for the Central Office of Information and circulated far and wide by the British Council: Mr Empson is one of the few English writers whose conversation is on a level with his writing. It is rare nowadays for anyone except an ...
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