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The Complete Poems of William Empson by John Haffenden (2001, Hardcover)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller notes
- “Hardcover in very good condition”
- ISBN
- 9780813020808
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Complete Poems of William Empson
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida
- Genre
- Poetry
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Topic
- General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Item Weight
- 30.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 512 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University Press of Florida
ISBN-10
0813020808
ISBN-13
9780813020808
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1821233
Product Key Features
Book Title
Complete Poems of William Empson
Number of Pages
512 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Poetry
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
30.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
00-068275
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
821/.912
Synopsis
"[An] almost wantonly magnificent edition."-- Frank Kermode, London Review of Books "Immaculate and exemplary."-- The Times (London) "Haffenden has done Empson proud."-- The Guardian William Empson's poetry occupies a central place in 20th-century literature. Acclaimed as the brilliant author of Seven Types of Ambiguity , published when he was only 24, Empson has been applauded for the dazzling intelligence and emotional passion of his poems. T. S. Eliot praised the "brain power" and "intense feeling" of his poetry; F. R. Leavis hailed him as the first true successor to John Donne. Robert Lowell told Empson: "I think you are the most intelligent poet writing in our language and perhaps the best. I put you with Hardy and Graves and Auden and Philip Larkin." Empson's poems have a range of themes from metaphysics to melancholy, social climbing to political satire, love to loss. Above all, he was stimulated by the implications of modern science, which he called "the only fertile part of the contemporary mind." This volume brings together for the first time all the poems that Empson published in his lifetime and several more discovered since his death. Drawing on unpublished papers, interviews, readings, and broadcasts, John Haffenden's introduction and annotations identify manuscript sources, allusions, and intertexts. The volume also includes Empson's own notes, which he regarded as a vital complement to the poetry. Sir William Empson was educated at Winchester and Cambridge and taught at Tokyo University, Peking National University, and the University of Sheffield, where he was chair of English literature from 1952 until his retirement in 1971. He was knighted in 1979 and died in London in 1984. John Haffenden is professor of English literature at the University of Sheffield and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His books include The Life of John Berryman; W. H. Auden: The Critical Heritage; Viewpoints: Poets in Conversation; Interviews with Novelists ; and several editions of William Empson's work., " An] almost wantonly magnificent edition."-- Frank Kermode, London Review of Books "Immaculate and exemplary."-- The Times (London) "Haffenden has done Empson proud."-- The Guardian William Empson's poetry occupies a central place in 20th-century literature. Acclaimed as the brilliant author of Seven Types of Ambiguity , published when he was only 24, Empson has been applauded for the dazzling intelligence and emotional passion of his poems. T. S. Eliot praised the "brain power" and "intense feeling" of his poetry; F. R. Leavis hailed him as the first true successor to John Donne. Robert Lowell told Empson: "I think you are the most intelligent poet writing in our language and perhaps the best. I put you with Hardy and Graves and Auden and Philip Larkin." Empson's poems have a range of themes from metaphysics to melancholy, social climbing to political satire, love to loss. Above all, he was stimulated by the implications of modern science, which he called "the only fertile part of the contemporary mind." This volume brings together for the first time all the poems that Empson published in his lifetime and several more discovered since his death. Drawing on unpublished papers, interviews, readings, and broadcasts, John Haffenden's introduction and annotations identify manuscript sources, allusions, and intertexts. The volume also includes Empson's own notes, which he regarded as a vital complement to the poetry. Sir William Empson was educated at Winchester and Cambridge and taught at Tokyo University, Peking National University, and the University of Sheffield, where he was chair of English literature from 1952 until his retirement in 1971. He was knighted in 1979 and died in London in 1984. John Haffenden is professor of English literature at the University of Sheffield and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His books include The Life of John Berryman; W. H. Auden: The Critical Heritage; Viewpoints: Poets in Conversation; Interviews with Novelists ; and several editions of William Empson's work.
LC Classification Number
PR6009.M7A17 2001
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