William Empson: Among the Mandarins

by John Haffenden

Book Overview

William Empson was the foremost English literary critic of the twentieth century. He was a man of huge energy and curiosity, and a genuine eccentric who remained imperturbable in the face of all the extraordinary circumstances in which he found himself. The discovery of contraceptives in his possession by a bedmaker at Cambridge University led to his being robbed of a promised Fellowship. Yet Seven Types of Ambiguity, drafted while he was still an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019953991X
• ISBN13: 9780199539918
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 2.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"