The Complete PoemsEmpson'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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We call it flighting when you wait round the marshes in the evening for the ducks to come and settle there to feed ... ending with a lock gate at the river bank which shuts automatically as the tide comes in unless you are warping .
We call it flighting when you wait round the marshes in the evening for the ducks to come and settle there to feed ... ending with a lock gate at the river bank which shuts automatically as the tide comes in unless you are warping .
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I must say , however politely you try to phrase it , it does seem to come pretty close to recommending Posing . ... I do feel it's writing , as it were , to a theory without my being quite sure what the theory comes to , or what it ...
I must say , however politely you try to phrase it , it does seem to come pretty close to recommending Posing . ... I do feel it's writing , as it were , to a theory without my being quite sure what the theory comes to , or what it ...
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Making it come to life is , I do think , hard . The best of them was written by W. H. Auden in The Sea and the Mirror , when all the characters in Shakespeare's Tempest come out and talk about themselves . Miranda comes out panting ...
Making it come to life is , I do think , hard . The best of them was written by W. H. Auden in The Sea and the Mirror , when all the characters in Shakespeare's Tempest come out and talk about themselves . Miranda comes out panting ...
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