William Empson first swam into my ken in 1930-31 while I was reading for honors in the English School at Oxford. I cannot remember how I first heard of him: perhaps through his association with I. A.
On William Empson upon the publication of The Complete Poems of William Empson, edited by John Haffenden. Such an admission can give hostages to fortune. “Aha,” said a colleague of mine years ago, ...
Rather than denying the contradictoriness of being human, Empson revelled in it, as The Face of Buddha reveals. By John Gray William Empson was a genius. Describing anyone in this way is distinctly ...
THE late William Empson was one of the most perceptive and brilliant literary critics of the 20th century. His first book, “Seven Types of Ambiguity”, was published in 1930 when Empson was just 24. An ...
In the sanctuary of academia in the Fifties you might have expected an evening's entertainment to have involved a quiet pipe and a good book. It is now clear this was very far from the case for ...
COLLECTED POEMS OF WILLIAM EMPSON (113 pp.)—Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). There is a kind of “intellectual” poetry that the everyday reader is right in never bothering his head about; if he did, he would ...
The Complete Poems of William Empson edited by John Haffenden. Allen Lane, 410 pp., £30, 17 April, 0 713 99287 5 Buy it at BOL Empson has been dead these 16 years, and although his voice was often ...
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Poet and critic William Empson is best known for his pioneering studies of English literature such as seven types of ambiguity, as well as his lyrical and witty poetry that made a big impact on other ...
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