Sir William Empson (27 September 1906 – 15 April 1984) was an English literary critic and poet, widely influential for his practice of closely reading...

Seven Types of Ambiguity is a work of literary criticism by William Empson which was first published in 1930. It was one of the most influential critical...

William Empson (1791 – 10 December 1852) was an English barrister, professor and journalist. William Empson was educated at Winchester, and Trinity College...

adventurer and socialite" in her obituary in the Times. She and her husband William Empson were involved in the London bohemian group that included George Orwell...

comedian Walter Empson (1856–1934), New Zealand educator William Empson (1906–1984), English literary critic and poet William Empson (lawyer) (1791–1852)...

Sir Richard Empson (c. 1450 – 17 August 1510), minister of Henry VII, was a son of Peter Empson. Educated as a lawyer, he soon attained considerable success...

volume of Empson's authorized biography was titled: William Empson: Against the Christians. In it his authorized biographer describes "Empson’s visceral...

nature of pastoral. These include Friedrich Schiller, George Puttenham, William Empson, Frank Kermode, Raymond Williams, Renato Poggioli, Annabel Patterson...

Joyce includes a villanelle written by his protagonist Stephen Dedalus. William Empson revived the villanelle more seriously in the 1930s, and his contemporaries...

by William Empson, a former student of Richards'; moreover, additional to The Principles of Literary Criticism and Practical Criticism, Empson's book...

University College London and teaches courses on Shakespeare, Kant, and William Empson. He is also a visiting professor to the Haifa university. The son of...

ideology. The ideology of Cambridge Criticism can be discerned from William Empson's work, the Seven Types of Ambiguity. This text holds that, in literature...

Bentley was both acute and wrong-headed, and "incorrigibly eccentric"; William Empson also finds Pearce to be more sympathetic to Bentley's underlying line...

University of Sheffield from 1947 to 1970, where he was a friend of William Empson. From 1970 until his retirement in 1980, he was professor at Royal Holloway...

Cummings and T. S. Eliot, among others, and was particularly influenced by William Empson, author of Seven Types of Ambiguity. Angleton was trained in the New...

Tom Clark Patrick Cockburn Stefan Collini Jenny Diski Terry Eagleton William Empson Paul Farmer Penelope Fitzgerald Jerry Fodor Paul Foot Dawn Foster Martha...

actor, in Belsize Park John Drinkwater, poet, at 10 Belsize Square William Empson, poet, at 160 Haverstock Hill Noel Gallagher, musician and songwriter...

filmmaker Humphrey Jennings. Collaborators included literary critic William Empson, photographers Humphrey Spender and Michael Wickham, collagist Julian...

literature to social issues I.A. Richards, F.R. Leavis, Q.D. Leavis, William Empson. Critical race theory Cultural studies – emphasizes the role of literature...

Orwell, Mulk Raj Anand, John Atkins, Edmund Blunden, Venu Chitale, William Empson, Vida Hope, Godfrey Kenton, Una Marson, Herbert Read, and Stephen Spender...

Cell. 182 (3): 533–536. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2020.07.002. Paul Tankard, “William Empson on C.S. Lewis’s Memory and Reading,” Notes and Queries, vol. 259, no...

revelation love grants to the lovers in the poem". Some scholars, such as William Empson, maintain that the poem also indicates that Donne seriously believed...

Volume 5: 1930–1931. Faber & Faber. p. 350. ISBN 978-0-571-31633-5. "William Empson (Society)". Winchester College. Archived from the original on 16 January...

(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1987) ISBN 0333077393. Includes essays by William Empson, Ian Watt, and Claude Rawson, amongst others. Monographs Battestin,...

and interesting characters. Poets include Ted Hughes, W. H. Auden, William Empson, Simon Armitage, David Miedzianik and Andrew Marvell. Three well known...

it fell short of what was necessary to make it truly great. In 1930, William Empson, while praising the form of the poem as universal, argued against its...

Mark Doty Keith Douglas Carol Ann Duffy Robert Duncan T. S. Eliot William Empson Elaine Feinstein James Fenton Roy Fisher Veronica Forrest-Thomson Robert...

collaborated on A Survey of Modernist Poetry (1927) (which inspired William Empson to write Seven Types of Ambiguity and was in some respects the seed...

Jeffrey Jeffrey, Macvey Napier, Henry Reeve, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, William Empson, Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot (Hon.) and Harold Cox, A. Constable, 1830...

Walcott, Thomas Pynchon, Don Delillo, Woody Allen, Louise Erdrich, William Empson, Linda Gregg, Mark Van Doren, Kenneth Burke, and Ha Jin. The magazine's...