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William Empson • 41 Items / 15 Articles, 9 Reviews, 16 Books, 1 Poem
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  1. The Alchemist
    William Empson
    The Hudson Review, Winter 1969, pp. 595-608
  2. Argufying: Essays on Literature and Culture (1988)
    William Empson and John Haffenden
    3 Reviews
  3. Coleridge's Verse (1973)
    William Empson, David Pirie, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ...
    A Selection
    1 Review
  4. Collected Poems (1949)
    William Empson
    10 Reviews, 3 Readable
  5. Comment
    Sir John Slessor, Cedric Dover, and William Empson, ...
    Encounter, August 1955, pp. 72-75
  6. Comment
    Alec Brown, Edmund Wilson, William Empson, and George Mikes, ...
    Encounter, November 1955, pp. 59-62
  7. [+]
    Compacted Doctrines (Review)
    William Empson
    Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, by Raymond Williams
    1. Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society by Raymond Williams
    The New York Review of Books, October 27, 1977, pp. 21-22
  8. The Complete Poems of William Empson (2001)
    John Haffenden and William Empson
    1 Review
  9. Correspondence
    J.B.S. Haldane, J.L. Russell, W. Empson, and P. Mansell Jones, ...
    Scrutiny, June 1935, pp. 62-71
  10. [+]
    Death and Transfiguration (Review)
    William Empson
    The Selected Writings of Dylan Thomas, by Dylan Thomas
    1. The Selected Writings of Dylan Thomas by Dylan Thomas
    The Nation, February 22, 1947, pp. 214-215
  11. Chronicles
    A Doctrine of Aesthetics
    William Empson
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1949, pp. 94-97
  12. English Pastoral Poetry (1938)
    William Empson
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  13. Essays on Renaissance Literature, Vol. I (1993)
    William Empson and John Haffenden
    Donne and the New Philosophy
    1 Review
  14. Essays on Shakespeare (1986)
    William Empson
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  15. [+]
    Fairy Flight in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (Review)
    William Empson
    A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Harold F. Brooks and William Shakespeare
    1. A Midsummer Night's Dream by Harold F. Brooks and William Shakespeare
    The New York Review of Books, December 6, 1979
  16. A Family Monster
    William Empson
    The Nation, December 7, 1946, pp. 652-655
  17. The Gathering Storm (1940)
    William Empson
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  18. Letter
    William Empson
    The New York Review of Books, June 1, 1978, p. 40
  19. Letters
    Sir John Cockcroft, William Empson, and M.J. Ross-MacDonald, ...
    Encounter, February 1958, pp. 65-71
  20. Letters
    William Empson, Robert Crichton, Gore Vidal, and Harvey Cox, ...
    The New York Review of Books, September 20, 1973, pp. 44-48
  21. Marvell's 'Garden'
    William Empson
    Scrutiny, December 1932, pp. 236-240
  22. Milton's God (1962)
    William Empson
    2 Reviews
  23. Passing through U. S. A.
    William Empson
    Horizon, June 1940, pp. 425-430
  24. Poem
    William Empson
    Horizon, May 1940, p. 315
  25. Poems (1935)
    William Empson
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  26. Proletarian Literature
    William Empson
    Scrutiny, March 1935, pp. 332-338
  27. [+]
    Herbert Read (Review)
    W. Empson
    The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge, by A.J. Ayer
    1. The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge by A.J. Ayer
    Horizon, March 1941, p. 222
  28. The Royal Beasts and Other Works (1988)
    William Empson
    1 Review
  29. The Satan of Milton
    William Empson
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1960, pp. 33-59
  30. Selected Letters of William Empson (2007)
    John Haffenden and William Empson
    1 Review
  31. Seven Types of Ambiguity (1931)
    William Empson
    Collected Poems
    6 Reviews, 3 Readable
  32. [+]
    A Small Thing (Review)
    William Empson
    Poems, 1938-1945, by Robert Graves
    1. Poems, 1938-1945 by Robert Graves
    The Nation, April 5, 1947, p. 403
  33. Some Versions of Pastoral (1936)
    William Empson
    The Structure of Complex Worlds
    2 Reviews, 2 Readable
  34. The Structure of Complex Words (1952)
    William Empson
    2 Reviews
  35. [+]
    There Is No Penance Due to Innocence (Review)
    William Empson
    John Donne, by John Carey
    1. John Donne by John Carey
    The New York Review of Books, December 3, 1981, pp. 42-50
  36. "There Is No Penance Due to Innocence"
    Helen Gardner, Mark Justin, and William Empson
    An Exchange
    The New York Review of Books, March 4, 1982, p. 43
  37. [+]
    Two Proper Crimes (Review)
    William Empson
    Christopher Marlowe, by Paul H. Kocher
    1. Christopher Marlowe by Paul H. Kocher
    The Nation, October 19, 1946, p. 444
  38. Using Biography (1985)
    William Empson
    3 Reviews
  39. [+]
    The Voice of the Underdog (Review)
    William Empson
    A Rhetoric of Irony, by Wayne C. Booth
    1. A Rhetoric of Irony by Wayne C. Booth
    The New York Review of Books, June 12, 1975, pp. 37-38
  40. Volpone
    William Empson
    The Hudson Review, Winter 1968, pp. 651-666
  41. Wit in the Essay on Criticism
    William Empson
    The Hudson Review, Winter 1950, pp. 559-577
  42. [+]
    Yeats and the Spirits (2 Reviews)
    William Empson
    Yeats, the Tarot, and the Golden Dawn, by Kathleen Raine
    1. Yeats, the Tarot, and the Golden Dawn by Kathleen Raine
    2. Memoirs, Autobiography (First Draft), and Journal by William Butler Yeats and Denis Donoghue
    The New York Review of Books, December 13, 1973, pp. 43-44
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