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Product Identifiers
PublisherFaber & Faber
ISBN-139780571093434
eBay Product ID (ePID)16046562519
Product Key Features
Publication Year1972
Book TitleVerse: a Selection
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
AuthorSamuel Taylor Coleridge
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height220 mm
Item Width140 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorSamuel Taylor Coleridge
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- 09 Jun, 2025
Empson's penetration is outstanding.
William Empson's long introductory essay, as is generally the case for his work, is packed with original insights. His work is intellectually invigorating in examining of STC's "intentions" across rewritings. Empson is brusquely dismissive of Wimsatt's 'intentional fallacy', at the time a critical orthodoxy. He inderstood STC to have been excited by an occult idea of active daemonic spirits, whilst hedged in by Wordsworth's pantheism (his "new religion") and Christian orthodoxyas Coleridge's Unitarianism collapsed. Whatever one thinks of this view, Empson is always a critic who just opens things up in a text. His collaborator, David Pirie provides useful notes on each of the selected poems. This should be read alongside selections by John Beer (Everyman 1974) , Richard Holmes (Penguin 1996) and H.J. Jackson (Oxford 1994). These are all useful works, but Empson's penetration is compelling.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
