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William's tale.(William Empson: Against the Christians)(Book review)
John Haffenden William Empson: Against the Christians. Oxford University Press, 797 pages, 30 [pounds sterling]
This is the second and final volume of John Haffenden's epic biography of William Empson (I reviewed the first for The New Criterion in May 2005). Once again, Haffenden marshals a wealth of detail into a narrative always fresh and engrossing. The last four decades of William Empson's life took him from propaganda war work for the Far Eastern unit of the BBC, to a British Council lectureship at the National Peking University, where he remained throughout the civil war and well into the communist regime; thence back to his native Yorkshire and a ...
- William Empson: Against the Christians.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Batchelor, John April 1, 2008 700+ words
William Empson: Against the Christians. By John Haffenden...John Haffenden's second volume sees William Empson in a series of wartime and post-war...in his rooms) fifty years earlier. William Empson was an extreme eccentric and individualist...
- A Poet Duly Noted.(The Complete Poems of William Empson)
- Magazine article from: The Nation TROMP, IAN December 31, 2001 700+ words
THE COMPLETE POEMS OF WILLIAM EMPSON. Edited by John Haffenden. University...edition of The Complete Poems of William Empson was reviewed by Frank Kermode...Books under the sly headline "William Empson: a most noteworthy poet." Empson...
- Ambiguous type.(William Empson, Volume I: Among the Mandarins)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Dean, Paul May 1, 2005 700+ words
Ambiguous type John Haffenden William Empson, Volume I: Among the Mandarins. Oxford University...twenty years, John Haffenden probably knows more about William Empson than Empson did, but he has lost all sense of proportion...
- Empson, William. The Complete Poems of William Empson.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: ANQ Lewin, Jennifer September 22, 2002 700+ words
...glance, The Complete Poems of William Empson seems to aspire to the condition...selections Haffenden added to Empson's own will broaden the appeal of the poetry itself. William Empson wrote relatively few poems in...
- The great professor.(William Empson: Volume II: Against the Christians)(Book...
- Magazine article from: National Review Wilson, John May 14, 2007 700+ words
William Empson: Volume II: Against the Christians, by John Haffenden (Oxford, 824...paperback, Seven Types of Ambiguity. I knew nothing about the author, William Empson, but the insolent intelligence of the title (and the cover design with...
- William Empson: Among the Mandarins.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Batchelor, John July 1, 2007 700+ words
William Empson: Among the Mandarins. By JOHN HAFFENDEN. Oxford: Oxford University...927659-2. John Haffenden tells us that in the eyes of the Chinese William Empson was an exemplary 'Elder Born', a man of true han yang, 'elevated...
- William the conqueror; Literary criticism.(William Empson)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) June 4, 2005 700+ words
THE late William Empson was one of the most perceptive and...of notes to the poems themselves. Empson is undoubtedly important, and especially...the rest of his life worshipping. William Empson: Volume I--Among the Mandarins...
- William Empson.(William Empson, vol. 1)(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Biography Gross, John March 22, 2006 700+ words
Empson, William William Empson. Vol. I: Among the Mandarins. John Haffenden. Oxford: Oxford...down innumerable sources (many of them in China and Japan, where Empson once taught), and spoken to hundreds of surviving witnesses (some...
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