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Empson's own poetry, characterized by its intellectual rigor and formal experimentation, often grapples with philosophical and scientific ideas. His poems are densely packed with allusions and wordplay, requiring the reader to actively engage with the text.
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Poet, scholar, and critic Sir William Empson, was a massive literary figure of his time, one who “revolutionized our ways of reading a poem,” in the words of the London Times. The school of literary criticism known as New Criticism gained important support from Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity: A Study of Its Effects on English Verse.
William Empson (1906-1984) is best remembered as one of the most important and idiosyncratic literary critics of the 20th Century but he was also an influential poet whose output, though small, was held in high esteem by such figures as W. H. Auden and Robert Lowell.
Sir William Empson (27 September 1906 – 15 April 1984) was an English literary critic and poet, widely influential for his practice of closely reading literary works, a practice fundamental to New Criticism. His best-known work is his first, Seven Types of Ambiguity, published in 1930.
William Empson Poetry. William Empson was an influential English literary critic and metaphysical poet. His seminal work “Seven Types of Ambiguity ” revolutionized literary criticism by championing close textual analysis and ambiguity.
The Fire Sermon and the Sphinx: The Poetry of William Empson. In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle analyses the peculiar modernism of an obscure poet. William Empson wrote one of the most influential works of literary criticism of the entire twentieth century.
Jun 18, 2001 · Empson’s poems have a range of themes from metaphysics to melancholy, social climbing to political satire, love to loss. Above all, he was stimulated by the implications of modern science, which he called "the only fertile part of the contemporary mind."
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