John Haffenden's acclaimed biography of William Empson (1906-1984), the foremost English literary critic of the twentieth century, is now available in paperback. An authoritative and compelling account and the first of two volumes exploring his remarkable life and work.
John Haffenden's acclaimed biography of William Empson (1906-1984), the foremost English literary critic of the twentieth century, is now available in paperback. An authoritative and compelling account and the first of two volumes exploring his remarkable life and work.
Currently Head of Department at the University of Sheffield, John Haffenden was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Oxford University, and began his teaching career at H. M. Prison, Oxford. He has received awards from the Authors' Foundation of the Society of Authors and the British Academy, and has been a British Academy Research Reader and a Leverhulme Research Fellow. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an elected founding Fellow of the English Association.
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* Table of Dates * 1: Introduction * 2: In the Blood: Sir Richard Empson, Professor William, and John Henry * 3: 'A horrid little boy, airing my views' * 4: 'Owl Empson' * 5: 'Did I, I wonder, talk too much?' * 6: 'Mr Empson gave a very competent performance' * 7: 'His presence spellbound us all': The Experiment Group * 8: The Making of Seven Types of Ambiguity: Influence and Integrity * 9: 'Those Particular Vices': Crisis, Expulsion, and Aftermath * 10: Seven Types of Ambiguity: The Critical Reception * 11: The Trials of Tokyo * 12: Poems 1935 * 13: Scapegoat and Sacrifice: Some Versions of Pastoral * 14: 'Waiting for the end, boys': Politics, Poets, and Mass-Observation * 15: Camping Out: China 1937-38 * 16: 'The savage life and the fleas and the bombs': China 1938-39 * 17: Postscript * Appendix: Further Famous Forebears
* Table of Dates * 1: Introduction * 2: In the Blood: Sir Richard Empson, Professor William, and John Henry * 3: 'A horrid little boy, airing my views' * 4: 'Owl Empson' * 5: 'Did I, I wonder, talk too much?' * 6: 'Mr Empson gave a very competent performance' * 7: 'His presence spellbound us all': The Experiment Group * 8: The Making of Seven Types of Ambiguity: Influence and Integrity * 9: 'Those Particular Vices': Crisis, Expulsion, and Aftermath * 10: Seven Types of Ambiguity: The Critical Reception * 11: The Trials of Tokyo * 12: Poems 1935 * 13: Scapegoat and Sacrifice: Some Versions of Pastoral * 14: 'Waiting for the end, boys': Politics, Poets, and Mass-Observation * 15: Camping Out: China 1937-38 * 16: 'The savage life and the fleas and the bombs': China 1938-39 * 17: Postscript * Appendix: Further Famous Forebears
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