William Empson

William Empson: Some Versions of Pastoral

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Some Versions of Pastoral is one of the most famous books of literary criticism of the twentieth century, with chapters of unrivalled brilliance that include celebrated discussions of Shakespeare, Milton, and Lewis Carroll. This is the first edition to supply a full critical commentary, bringing the book into a new currency for a modern audience.

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Perry, Seamus (Weiterhin)

ISBN: 978-0-19-965966-1
EAN: 9780199659661
Produktnummer: 33781510
Verlag: Oxford Academic
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 496 S.
Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.3 cm

Über den Autor

William Empson (1906-1984), poet, critic and essayist, is most famous for his first book, Seven Types of Ambiguity, begun while he was in Cambridge undergraduate. After a stint teaching in Japan and China, he worked for the BBC throughout the Second World War, afterwards returning to China for a longer stay. He was a professor of the University of Sheffield between 1952 and 1971, and was knighted in 1979. His other notable works include The Structure ofComplex Words and Milton's God. Collected Poems was published in 1955, and his Complete Poems was published in 2000 by the Penguin PressSeamus Perry is Professor of English Literature and Massey Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford. His publications include Coleridge and the Uses of Division and Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection, and, co-edited with Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Tennyson Among the Poets (all OUP).