The Complete Poems of William Empson (Magill’s Literary Annual 2002)
At a glance:
- Author: William Empson
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Time of Work: The twentieth century
- Setting: England, with glances at China and Afghanistan
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Asia or Asians, China or Chinese people, Middle East, Old age or elderly people, Aging, Museums
- Locales: England, China, Afghanistan
William Empson is not nearly as famous at the turn of the twenty-first century as he was one generation previously. In the era of New Criticism, which extended from the 1940’s to the 1960’s, his was one of the best-known names, and his books of criticism such as Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930, rev. 1947) and Some Versions of Pastoral (1935) were frequently cited. This was so even though Empson decisively differed from New Critical dogma on two major issues. Whereas the standard New Critical line, espoused by men such as Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren,...
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