William Empson Boeken
William Empson was een Engelse literatuurcriticus en dichter, gevierd om zijn strenge, nauwkeurige lezing van literaire werken die de New Critics diepgaand beïnvloedde. Zijn kritische benadering, vaak geroemd om zijn humor en excentriciteit, leverde hem lof op als een "criticus van genie", terwijl hij ook controverse opriep vanwege zijn soms perverse interpretaties. Empsons krachtige en onconventionele stijl maakt zijn werk tot een essentiële lectuur vanwege de unieke impact en blijvende betekenis in de literaire kritiek.
Argufying
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Some Versions of Pastoral is considered a landmark of modern literary criticism. Mr. Empson sees the pastoral convention as including not only poems of shepherd life but any work "about the people but not by or for" them. Finding examples in the writing of every country and century, from Mencius to William Faulkner or Céline, he concentrates on an analysis of certain works and forms in English literature, several of them, like Alice in Wonderland , Troilus and Cressida , and proletarian novels not traditionally considered pastoral. His chapter on Milton and Bentley is a precursor of Mr. Empson’s 1961 book, Milton’s God . With virtuoso clarity and perception throughout he brings the student to a new awareness of hidden values in individual works and to the creative possibilities of the language.
The Complete Poems
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Empson has long been applauded for the dazzling intelligence and emotional passion of his poems. Praised in his lifetime by the likes of T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and John Betjeman, his reputation contines to be high. His poems take a wide range of themes from metaphysics to melancholy, social climbing to political satire, and from love to loss. schovat popis
Examines seven types of ambiguity, providing examples of it in the writings of Shakespeare, Wordsworth, and T.S. Eliot.
English Pastoral Poetry: [by] William Empson
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