Empson in the round / Matthew Bevis -- Argufying and the generation gap / Deborah Bowman -- Empson, Piaget, and child logic in wartime / Adam Piette -- C. Hatakeyama and W.E. / Peter Robinson -- Empson and the gifts of China / Jason Harding -- Coleridge, Christ, and contradiction in Empson / Seamus Perry -- Empson's God / Eric Griffiths -- Alice and Ulysses's Bough: nonsense in Empson / Hugh Haughton -- Empson's tact / Matthew Creasy -- Hermeneutic circling: Empson, Rosemund Tuve, and the 'Wimsatt Law' / Paul Fry -- Machinery of a rich and full response: Empson as philosopher-critic / Christopher Norris -- Monogamy and the next step? Empson and the future of love in Einstein's Universe / Katy Price -- Empson's pregnancy / Susan Wolfson -- Interview with William Empson / Christopher Norris and David B. Wilson.
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William Empson was one the most important poet-critics of the twentieth century. Following on recent scholarly developments and the centenary of his birth in 2006 there has been a resurgence of interest in his work. In this book of critical essays on Empson - the first in over a decade - fourteen scholars consider the full range of his work, studying his poetry alongside his criticism in order to reassess the scale of his achievement. - ;William Empson was one of the most important poet-critics of the twentieth century, and continues to influence and inspire writers from many divergent critica.
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Some versions of Empson.
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0199286361
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Empson, William,1906-1984-- Criticism and interpretation.