Selected Letters of William Empson

Herausgeber: Haffenden, John

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

William Empson is one of the foremost writers and critics of the twentieth century. This correspondence shows him working out his ideas and gives the fullest possible picture of his robust interactions with many other prominent writers, including the likes of F. R. Leavis, Helen Gardner, Frank Kermode, Christopher Norris, and I. A. Richards.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 800
• Erscheinungstermin: Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 46mm
• Gewicht: 1157g
• ISBN-13: 9780199539864
• ISBN-10: 0199539863
• Artikelnr.: 24765985

Inhaltsangabe

1: The BBC War
2: The War within the BBC
3: Chinabound
4: Sounding the South: Kenyon College, Summer 1948
5: Siege and Liberation
6: The New China
7: Changes in China; and Kenyon Again
8: Quitting Communist china
9: Final Reckoning: The Affair of Fei Hsiao-t'ung
10: 'A Mighty Raspberry': iThe Structure of Complex Words/i
11: Homing to Yorkshire
12: From Poetry to the Queen
13: Ménage a Trois
14: The Anti-Christian: iMilton's God/i
15: 'They think good literature is a tremendous scolding': From Sheffield to Legon
16: The Road to Retirement
17: Rescuing Donne and Coleridge
18: Roamings in Retirement
19: iFaustus/i: Finale
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Note on the text
Table of dates
List of resipients and dates
Text of letters
Glossary of names
Index