Selected Letters of William Empson

by John Haffenden

This edited collection of letters by William Empson (1906-1984), one of the foremost writers and literary critics of the twentieth century, ranges across the entirety of his career. Parts of the correspondence record the development of ideas that were to come to fruition in seminal texts including Seven Types of Ambiguity, The Structure of Complex Words, and Milton's God. The topics of other letters range from Shakespeare's Dark Lady to Marvell's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199286841
• ISBN13: 9780199286843
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 800 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"