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Selected Letters of William Empson
Edited by John Haffenden
800 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-953986-4
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Paperback
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22 January 2009
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- Comprehensive range of letters from all stages of Empson's career
- John Haffenden's critical Introduction provides discussion points on Empson's style and interests
- Fully annotated: all significant allusions, references, and cross-references are explained in footnotes
- Comprehensive biographical glossary gives at-a-glance information on all major correspondents
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 Dobr?e, 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. Readership: Students and general readers of English literature and criticism, students and scholars of literary theory and twentieth-century literary history .
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Edited by John Haffenden, Professor of English Literature, University of Sheffield
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"superlative" - Ian Donaldson Australian Book Review
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1: The BBC War
2: The War within the BBC
3: Chinabound
4: Sounding the South: Kenyon College, Summer 1948
5: Siege and Liberation
6: The New China
7: Changes in China; and Kenyon Again
8: Quitting Communist china
9: Final Reckoning: The Affair of Fei Hsiao-t'ung
10: 'A Mighty Raspberry': iThe Structure of Complex Words/i
11: Homing to Yorkshire
12: From Poetry to the Queen
13: Ménage a Trois
14: The Anti-Christian: iMilton's God/i
15: 'They think good literature is a tremendous scolding': From Sheffield to Legon
16: The Road to Retirement
17: Rescuing Donne and Coleridge
18: Roamings in Retirement
19: iFaustus/i: Finale
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Note on the text
Table of dates
List of resipients and dates
Text of letters
Glossary of names
Index
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