... William Empson: Prophet against SaniJice. By PAULH. FRY. New York: Routledge, 1991. xviii + 176 pp. $55.00. This book belongs to a series on critics of the twentieth century under the general editorship of Christopher Norris. According to the titles in this series, Empson joins company...

.... Lawrence, William Empson, and J. R. R. Tolkien. By ROGERSALE. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1973. xi + 261 pp. $10.00. “To find a hero one tells a story: there has never been any other way” (p. 1). Roger Sale’s opening sentence is to be taken...

...James Jensen Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 THE CONSTRUCTION OF SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY By JAMES JENSEN The influence of William Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity has been as enormous...

...,” ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House, 1986), 7-18; William Empson, “The Ancient Mariner,” Cn’tical Quarterly 6 (1964), 298-319, rpt. in Bloom, 19-43; Emp son, introduction to Coleridge’s Verse: A Selection, ed. William Empson and David Pirie (New York: Schocken, ig73), 13-100 (a later...

... of MLQ (32,4) there was published a letter of my writing concerning an article by James Jensen, “The Construction of Seuen Types of Ambiguity” (by William Empson), published in MLQ in Sep- tember 1966 (27, 3), which had not come to my attention in the intervening years. Both in Mr. Jensen’s...

... as Aristotle” (50). More interesting, varied, and acrobatic are those who allow themselves to see value in ambiguities. In the centuries prior to William Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930), there were two general models through which ambiguities could be celebrated: artificial ambiguity (wit...

.... NANCYGLAZENER University of Pittsburgh William Empson: Prophet against SaniJice. By PAULH. FRY. New York: Routledge, 1991. xviii + 176 pp. $55.00. This book belongs to a series on critics of the twentieth century under the general editorship of Christopher Norris. According...

...Berel Lang Ernst Behler Steven Taubeneck. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1991. xii + 184 pp. $11.95. Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 BEREL LANG 463 stick against which Empson will be measured...

... statement of mine, recognition of my intellectually and verbally sensitive hand within the glove of the Survey method has been mounting, with perception of its connection, via Mr. Empson’s hobby-horse use of it, with the ‘New Criticism,’ which tried to make real horse-flesh...

... inspiration comes from William Empson’s gnomic formulations in Some Versions of Pas- toral. Unlike the common account of the mode as nostalgic, idyllic, and escapist (Alpers sees this view as ultimately a version of Schiller’s “sentimen- tal” poetry), the book argues that pastoral is fundamentally...

... of Shakespeare’s greatest sonnets, but the nature of its greatness will be more clearly defined. It is probably best to begin by sketching the literal and ironic inter- pretations referred to above. William Empson has summarized what Sonnet 94 “means” if one hears no irony in the poet’s tone...

... men and the violence they perpetrate against women. Unfelt is a densely theorized book; given its ambition to remake cultural history through the history of a word, however, it shows no love for its great precursors. Alluding to Raymond Williams and William Empson, Noggle writes, “Philosophy...

..., and Nature and Celestial Paradise (p. 3). In his preliminary discussions Toliver is reassuringly alert to the notoriously protean elusiveness of pastoral (not to mention antipastoral) and keeps a firm grip on his categories. William Empson, Renato Poggioli, and Leo Marx are skillfully employed...

... statement of mine, recognition of my intellectually and verbally sensitive hand within the glove of the Survey method has been mounting, with perception of its connection, via Mr. Empson’s hobby-horse use of it, with the ‘New Criticism,’ which tried to make real horse-flesh...

..., / Love hither makes his best retreat.” The retreat may be negative, as in a martial retreat, or positive, as in a religious retreat. Empson and Kermode stress the former and see the qualifying first line as a sign that the getaway is not a rout but an orderly withdrawal: “it is only...

... of MLQ (32,4) there was published a letter of my writing concerning an article by James Jensen, “The Construction of Seuen Types of Ambiguity” (by William Empson), published in MLQ in Sep- tember 1966 (27, 3), which had not come to my attention in the intervening years. Both in Mr. Jensen’s...

... the reader’s judgment, in Fielding. See Bender 2012 : 28; Empson 1958 ; Iser 1974 : 50–55; MacKenzie 2010 ; Merrett 1980 ; Preston 1970 : 114–32; Snow 1983 ; Stephanson 1982 : 253–55; Watt 2000 : 288; and Welsh 1992 : 44–76. John Bender ( 2012 : 21–37) expands the argument to the early novel more...

... attributes are found in the Presence? (p. 72) It would be to descend dangerously near the level of Empson’s famous and fatuous remark about Wordsworth having no inspiration “other than his use when a boy of the mountain as a . . , father-substitute,”l but one could no doubt claim...

... on Prayer?” RES, I I (l960),303-304; William Empson, “The Ancient Mariner,” CritQ, 6 (1964). 298-319;J. U. Beer, Coleridge the Visionary (London, 1959); Irene Chayes, “A Coleridgean 4 (1965).81-103; Reading of ‘The Ancient Mariner,’ ” SIR, and George Whalley. “The Mar...

... that the clash is the subject, that the novels are about what Brown calls “the ag- ricultural tragedy of 1870-1902,” that is, that they are historical. I do not think that is quite the case, and I would prefer to take up Empson’s * Thomas Hardy (London, 1954), p. 30. 330...