This volume gathers some of William Empson's most passionate and controversial essays and includes previously inaccessible pieces on influential Renaissance writers and scientists. Introduced by leading Empson scholar John Haffenden, this is a book for anyone interested in the Renaissance, the history of science, and the history of literary criticism.
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"Empson's achievement here as elsewhere comes from the generosity of spirit which made him consistently a great critic." New York Review of Books
"Some of these passages have a sweep as grand as Empson found in Donne." Times Literary Supplement
"...an insightful look into Empson the thinker." Eugene R. Cunner, English Language Notes
"Anybody who cares about human intelligence at work with literature is in Haffenden's debt." Book Review Digest
"Some of these passages have a sweep as grand as Empson found in Donne." Times Literary Supplement
"...an insightful look into Empson the thinker." Eugene R. Cunner, English Language Notes
"Anybody who cares about human intelligence at work with literature is in Haffenden's debt." Book Review Digest
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A collection of the critic's most passionate and controversial essays includes previously inaccessible pieces on influential Renaissance writers and scientists. It is a book for those interested in the Renaissance, the history of science and the history of literary criticism.
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I can't offer any new view of Donne, that is, my opinions however unacceptable have appeared in book form already; but I have been reading some of the recent learned works about the Elizabethan rhetoric teaching and its influence on the poets, and I feel something needs to be said about them. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Professor Gardner, Miss Tuve, John Donne, Thomas Digges, Elizabeth Drury, Red Indians, Ben Jonson, Holy Sonnet, King James, Tycho Brahe, Milky Way, The Everlasting Gospel, The Pursuit of the Millenium, Dark Age, Keeper of the Great Seal, Kepler's Dream, Anglican Church, Astronomical Thought, Civil War, Countess of Bedford, Godwin's Man, Harry Nicholas, Mary Magdalen, Prognostication Everlasting, Renaissance England New!
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I can't offer any new view of Donne, that is, my opinions however unacceptable have appeared in book form already; but I have been reading some of the recent learned works about the Elizabethan rhetoric teaching and its influence on the poets, and I feel something needs to be said about them. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
white lynnen, possesse one world, print assumptions, doe confesse, separate planet, less innocence, cosmic voyage, runaway marriage, forbidding mourning, new astronomy, plural worlds, divine poems, verse letters Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Professor Gardner, Miss Tuve, John Donne, Thomas Digges, Elizabeth Drury, Red Indians, Ben Jonson, Holy Sonnet, King James, Tycho Brahe, Milky Way, The Everlasting Gospel, The Pursuit of the Millenium, Dark Age, Keeper of the Great Seal, Kepler's Dream, Anglican Church, Astronomical Thought, Civil War, Countess of Bedford, Godwin's Man, Harry Nicholas, Mary Magdalen, Prognostication Everlasting, Renaissance England New!
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- The Man in the Moone by Francis Godwin on 13 pages
- John Donne: The Critical Heritage by A.J. Smith on 8 pages
- The Divine Poems (Oxford English Texts) by Helen Gardner on 7 pages
- Some Versions of Pastoral (New Directions Paperbook) by William Empson on 7 pages
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- William Empson: Prophet Against Sacrifice (Critics of the Twentieth Century) by Paul H. Fry on 6 pages
- William Empson: Essays on Renaissance Literature: Volume 2, The Drama by William Empson in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Romantic Poets, Critics, and Other Madmen by Charles Rosen on page 212, page 217, and page 222
- 'Hamlet' without Hamlet by Margreta de Grazia in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Modern English War Poetry by Tim Kendall on page 106, page 111, and Back Matter
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