The Complete PoemsAllen Lane, 2000 - 410 σελίδες Empson's poetry occupies a central place in 20th century literature. Acclaimed as the author of Seven types of ambiguity (1930). William Empson was applauded also for the dazzling intelligence and emotional passion of his poems. T.S. Eliot praised the brain power and intense feeling of his poetry; F.R. Leavis hailed him as the first true successor to John Donne. Other writers as diverse as W.B. Yeats, Dylan Thomas and John Betjeman have admired his elegant, humane and moving work. Robert Lowell told Empson: I think you are the most intelligent poet writing in our language and perhaps the best. I put you with Hardy and Graves and Auden and Philip Larkin |
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Σελίδα xxxv
... called Metaphysical Poetry , mainly the style of John Donne , and mine I think was more direct imitation than anybody else's . This kind of poetry works by what are called ' conceits ' , following out a comparison ruthlessly or carrying ...
... called Metaphysical Poetry , mainly the style of John Donne , and mine I think was more direct imitation than anybody else's . This kind of poetry works by what are called ' conceits ' , following out a comparison ruthlessly or carrying ...
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... called to me across The gulf she floated over of despair . Came roaring up as through triumphal arches Called I should warm my hands on her gold cope Called her despair the coping of her fire . The god in making fire from her despair ...
... called to me across The gulf she floated over of despair . Came roaring up as through triumphal arches Called I should warm my hands on her gold cope Called her despair the coping of her fire . The god in making fire from her despair ...
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... called " the one who is born of fire " ... Wine , too , has a fiery nature . Some thought they might explain the myth of the fiery birth of the god from this fact . Archilochus begins his hymn to Dionysus with the words " stuck by ...
... called " the one who is born of fire " ... Wine , too , has a fiery nature . Some thought they might explain the myth of the fiery birth of the god from this fact . Archilochus begins his hymn to Dionysus with the words " stuck by ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | lxvi |
The Fire Sermon | 3 |
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