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William Empson

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Born: September 26 1906

Died: 1414 04 19841984

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Sir William Empson was an English literary critic and poet.

He was widely influential for his practice of closely reading literary works, fundamental to the New Critics. Jonathan Bate has said that the three greatest English Literary critics of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries are Johnson, Hazlitt and Empson, "not least because they are the funniest".

Empson has been styled a "critic of genius" by Sir Frank Kermode, who qualified his praise by identifying willfully perverse readings of certain authors; and Harold Bloom has stated that Empson is among a handful of critics who matter most to him, because of their force and eccentricity. Empson's bluntness led to controversy both during his life and after his death, and a reputation in part also as a "licensed buffoon" .

William Empson

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Born: September 26 1906

Died: 1414 04 19841984

Website: Go to Website

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Seven Types of Ambiguity

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William Empson

William Empson

Books from William Empson

Seven Types of Ambiguity

Milton's God

Some Versions of Pastoral

Sinomania: Writing about China from the London Review of Books

The Face of the Buddha

The Structure of Complex Words

Essays on Renaissance Literature, Volume One: Donne and the New Philosophy

Empson in Granta

The Gathering Storm

Poems

The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, Vol. 123: For January, 1866-April, 1866 (Classic Reprint)

Collected Poems

Poems

The Complete Poems

Essays on Shakespeare

Essays on Renaissance Literature, Volume Two: The Drama

Argufying: Essays on Literature and Culture

曖昧の七つの型

牧歌の諸変奏

William Empson: The Structure of Complex Words