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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... young, who would be prepared to enter into correspondence about them.'12 The desired correspondent should be young because energetic, and thus likely to keep up with the secondary reading. A good number of the letters written during ...
... young, who would be prepared to enter into correspondence about them.'12 The desired correspondent should be young because energetic, and thus likely to keep up with the secondary reading. A good number of the letters written during ...
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... young (though the book-title [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] pretends he is) but as a possible fatal alternative, a young man who has taken some wrong turning, or slipped over the edge of some vast drop, so that he can never ...
... young (though the book-title [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] pretends he is) but as a possible fatal alternative, a young man who has taken some wrong turning, or slipped over the edge of some vast drop, so that he can never ...
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... Letters of John Crowe Ransom, ed. Thomas Daniel Young and George Core (1985), 387–9. WE, letter to Sylvan Barnet, 4 Jul. 1967 (carbon in Houghton). 49 The poor Warden deserves respect for appearing so firmly in xxxii introduction.
... Letters of John Crowe Ransom, ed. Thomas Daniel Young and George Core (1985), 387–9. WE, letter to Sylvan Barnet, 4 Jul. 1967 (carbon in Houghton). 49 The poor Warden deserves respect for appearing so firmly in xxxii introduction.
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... young men would die of shame rather than do that. The notion he advances is that he and his pals were wont to amuse themselves by mimicking marginal groups such as old women and homosexuals. Yet at first blush, even if Empson and his ...
... young men would die of shame rather than do that. The notion he advances is that he and his pals were wont to amuse themselves by mimicking marginal groups such as old women and homosexuals. Yet at first blush, even if Empson and his ...
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... young men, because he was sure in some subtle way, however little he himself wished it, to pollute their innocence; and this in spite of the fact that his own intellectual powers would have been destroyed. As an act of grace I was ...
... young men, because he was sure in some subtle way, however little he himself wished it, to pollute their innocence; and this in spite of the fact that his own intellectual powers would have been destroyed. As an act of grace I was ...
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