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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63179032 Title: Selected letters of William Empson Author: William Empson; John Haffenden Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN/ISSN: 0199286841 9780199286843 OCLC:63179032

  
  

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Selected letters of William Empson

Author:	William Empson; John Haffenden
Publisher:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"This edited collection of letters by William Empson (1906-1984), one of the foremost writers and literary critics of the twentieth century, covers 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." "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 and these 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."--Jacket.  Read more...
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Subjects	Empson, William, -- 1906-1984 -- Correspondence. Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence. Empson, William, -- 1906-1984. View all subjects
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