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Empson, Sir William |
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Empson, Sir William(born Sept. 27, 1906, Hawdon, Yorkshire, Eng.—died April 15, 1984, London) British poet and critic. He studied at Cambridge and later taught in Japan and China. His precocious Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930), which suggests that uncertainty or overlap of meanings in the use of a word can be an enrichment of poetry rather than a fault, had an immense influence on 20th-century criticism; its close examination of poetic texts helped lay the foundation for New Criticism. Later works include Some Versions of Pastoral (1935) and The Structure of Complex Words (1951). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| When John Haffenden's magnificent two-volume biography of the great criticpoet William Empson came out three years ago, it was little noticed. William Empson published two marvellous books of poems and then no more for the rest of his life. When I was a student, my Cambridge superv isor said, in the Olympian tone characteristic of his kind, that the only living literary critics for whom he would sell his shirt were William Empson and |
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