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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... reference is to Ecc . 12 : 5-8 , that we should at all times remember death and the Creator : ' because man goeth to his long home , and the mourners go about the streets : Or ever the silver cord be loosed , or the golden bowl be ...
... reference is to Ecc . 12 : 5-8 , that we should at all times remember death and the Creator : ' because man goeth to his long home , and the mourners go about the streets : Or ever the silver cord be loosed , or the golden bowl be ...
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... reference to running ' the row from A to O ' ( l . 5 ) , ' tittles ' might refer to punctuation marks , ' a diacritic point over a letter ' , or specifically ' the dot over the letter i ' ; or , given the reference to ' checkmate ...
... reference to running ' the row from A to O ' ( l . 5 ) , ' tittles ' might refer to punctuation marks , ' a diacritic point over a letter ' , or specifically ' the dot over the letter i ' ; or , given the reference to ' checkmate ...
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... reference to ' G. P. ' ( l . 13 ) , which for most readers would automati- cally mean ' General Practitioner ' ( the family doctor ) , and which Empson in his note refers to ' general paralysis ' - the tertiary stage of syphilis ...
... reference to ' G. P. ' ( l . 13 ) , which for most readers would automati- cally mean ' General Practitioner ' ( the family doctor ) , and which Empson in his note refers to ' general paralysis ' - the tertiary stage of syphilis ...
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ABBREVIATIONS | viii |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | lxvi |
The Fire Sermon | 3 |
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