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William Empson: Some Versions of Pastoral

Empson, William Perry Seamus
Innbundet / 2020 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780199659661
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
1 gr
Høyde
245 mm
Bredde
165 mm
Dybde
35 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
486

Forfatter
Empson, William
Redaktør
Perry Seamus

Biografisk notat

William Empson (1906-1984), poet, critic and essayist, is most famous for his first book, Seven Types of Ambiguity, begun while he was in Cambridge undergraduate. After a stint teaching in Japan and China, he worked for the BBC throughout the Second World War, afterwards returning to China for a longer stay. He was a professor of the University of Sheffield between 1952 and 1971, and was knighted in 1979. His other notable works include The Structure of Complex Words and Milton's God. Collected Poems was published in 1955, and his Complete Poems was published in 2000 by the Penguin Press Seamus Perry is Professor of English Literature and Massey Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford. His publications include Coleridge and the Uses of Division and Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection, and, co-edited with Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Tennyson Among the Poets (all OUP).

William Empson: Some Versions of Pastoral

Empson, William Perry Seamus
Innbundet / 2020 / Engelsk
Empson, William Perry Seamus
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Some Versions of Pastoral has an implicit (occasionally explicit) commitment to interpreting literature as an aspect of 'social conflict', recognizing that the genre of the pastoral has an ideological function: to represent 'the beautiful relation between the rich and the poor'.

David Greenham, Modern Language Review

Lucid, meticulous, and admirably calibrated ... for anyone hoping to probe beneath the surface of Empson's rich and turbulent texts, the materials here will be an inexhaustible treasure trove.

Marshall Brown, Critical Inquiry

Empson's ear for nuances of intonation was as sharp and precise as the intellect he brought to bear on an historical understanding of patterns of thought and feeling in written texts. These annotated volumes from Oxford University Press, paying the scholarly respect Empson deserves, should become the definitive editions of Some Versions of Pastoral and The Structure of Complex Words.

Sean Sheehan, Dublin Review of Books

William Empson is, alongside T. S. Eliot, the greatest genius among twentieth-century critics, and Some Versions of Pastoral is widely recognised as one of the most extraordinary works of the golden age of English literary criticism. Ranging with astonishing virtuosity between works of several centuries and moving purposefully between cultures, William Empson has dazzling things to say here about Shakespeare and the Elizabethan theatre, the political poetry of Marvell, Milton's Paradise Lost, the complex satire of John Gay's Beggar's Opera, and the convoluted psychology at work in the Alice books of Lewis Carroll. The book is alert to questions of politics, psycho-analysis, and anthropology, and speaks to a wide range of contemporary concerns. Written in Empson's charismatically informal and wonderfully approachable voice, the book appeared in 1935 without footnotes or references. This edition is the first to identify the quotations and allusions, to explain the pertinence of his references, and to place the work within its Empsonian context. It is published with an appendix of other texts by Empson which illuminate the issues at work in the book.
Les mer
Some Versions of Pastoral is one of the most famous books of literary criticism of the twentieth century, with chapters of unrivalled brilliance that include celebrated discussions of Shakespeare, Milton, and Lewis Carroll. This is the first edition to supply a full critical commentary, bringing the book into a new currency for a modern audience.
Les mer
Editor's Introduction Some Versions of Pastoral Preface to the 1974 edition I: Proletarian Literature II: Double Plots III: They That Have Power IV: Marvell's Garden V: Milton and Bentley VI: The Beggar's Opera VII: Alice in Wonderland Appendix 1: Related Writings i: THe Negation of Negation (1927) ii: Elizabethan Rogues (1930) iii: To I.A. Richards (1932) iv: Mrs Dalloway as a Political Satire (1932) v: Introduction [to T.S. Eliot, Selected Essays] (1933) vi: Some Versions of Pastoral (1935) vii: Pantheism and the new Astronomy (1936) Appendix 2: James Smith, 'On Metaphysical Poetry' Commentary Textual Notes Corresponding page numbers in the principal editions of Some Versions of Pastoral
Les mer
The first annotated text of this critical classic Brings the book into a new scholarly currency, opening it up to students and academics Enlivens the classic work by revealing its extensive contextual connections with politics, psychology, anthropology, and modernism
Les mer
William Empson (1906-1984), poet, critic and essayist, is most famous for his first book, Seven Types of Ambiguity, begun while he was in Cambridge undergraduate. After a stint teaching in Japan and China, he worked for the BBC throughout the Second World War, afterwards returning to China for a longer stay. He was a professor of the University of Sheffield between 1952 and 1971, and was knighted in 1979. His other notable works include The Structure of Complex Words and Milton's God. Collected Poems was published in 1955, and his Complete Poems was published in 2000 by the Penguin Press Seamus Perry is Professor of English Literature and Massey Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford. His publications include Coleridge and the Uses of Division and Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection, and, co-edited with Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Tennyson Among the Poets (all OUP).
Les mer
The first annotated text of this critical classic Brings the book into a new scholarly currency, opening it up to students and academics Enlivens the classic work by revealing its extensive contextual connections with politics, psychology, anthropology, and modernism
Les mer

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Some Versions of Pastoral has an implicit (occasionally explicit) commitment to interpreting literature as an aspect of 'social conflict', recognizing that the genre of the pastoral has an ideological function: to represent 'the beautiful relation between the rich and the poor'.

David Greenham, Modern Language Review

Lucid, meticulous, and admirably calibrated ... for anyone hoping to probe beneath the surface of Empson's rich and turbulent texts, the materials here will be an inexhaustible treasure trove.

Marshall Brown, Critical Inquiry

Empson's ear for nuances of intonation was as sharp and precise as the intellect he brought to bear on an historical understanding of patterns of thought and feeling in written texts. These annotated volumes from Oxford University Press, paying the scholarly respect Empson deserves, should become the definitive editions of Some Versions of Pastoral and The Structure of Complex Words.

Sean Sheehan, Dublin Review of Books

William Empson is, alongside T. S. Eliot, the greatest genius among twentieth-century critics, and Some Versions of Pastoral is widely recognised as one of the most extraordinary works of the golden age of English literary criticism. Ranging with astonishing virtuosity between works of several centuries and moving purposefully between cultures, William Empson has dazzling things to say here about Shakespeare and the Elizabethan theatre, the political poetry of Marvell, Milton's Paradise Lost, the complex satire of John Gay's Beggar's Opera, and the convoluted psychology at work in the Alice books of Lewis Carroll. The book is alert to questions of politics, psycho-analysis, and anthropology, and speaks to a wide range of contemporary concerns. Written in Empson's charismatically informal and wonderfully approachable voice, the book appeared in 1935 without footnotes or references. This edition is the first to identify the quotations and allusions, to explain the pertinence of his references, and to place the work within its Empsonian context. It is published with an appendix of other texts by Empson which illuminate the issues at work in the book.
Les mer
Some Versions of Pastoral is one of the most famous books of literary criticism of the twentieth century, with chapters of unrivalled brilliance that include celebrated discussions of Shakespeare, Milton, and Lewis Carroll. This is the first edition to supply a full critical commentary, bringing the book into a new currency for a modern audience.
Les mer
Editor's Introduction Some Versions of Pastoral Preface to the 1974 edition I: Proletarian Literature II: Double Plots III: They That Have Power IV: Marvell's Garden V: Milton and Bentley VI: The Beggar's Opera VII: Alice in Wonderland Appendix 1: Related Writings i: THe Negation of Negation (1927) ii: Elizabethan Rogues (1930) iii: To I.A. Richards (1932) iv: Mrs Dalloway as a Political Satire (1932) v: Introduction [to T.S. Eliot, Selected Essays] (1933) vi: Some Versions of Pastoral (1935) vii: Pantheism and the new Astronomy (1936) Appendix 2: James Smith, 'On Metaphysical Poetry' Commentary Textual Notes Corresponding page numbers in the principal editions of Some Versions of Pastoral
Les mer
The first annotated text of this critical classic Brings the book into a new scholarly currency, opening it up to students and academics Enlivens the classic work by revealing its extensive contextual connections with politics, psychology, anthropology, and modernism
Les mer
William Empson (1906-1984), poet, critic and essayist, is most famous for his first book, Seven Types of Ambiguity, begun while he was in Cambridge undergraduate. After a stint teaching in Japan and China, he worked for the BBC throughout the Second World War, afterwards returning to China for a longer stay. He was a professor of the University of Sheffield between 1952 and 1971, and was knighted in 1979. His other notable works include The Structure of Complex Words and Milton's God. Collected Poems was published in 1955, and his Complete Poems was published in 2000 by the Penguin Press Seamus Perry is Professor of English Literature and Massey Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford. His publications include Coleridge and the Uses of Division and Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection, and, co-edited with Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Tennyson Among the Poets (all OUP).
Les mer
The first annotated text of this critical classic Brings the book into a new scholarly currency, opening it up to students and academics Enlivens the classic work by revealing its extensive contextual connections with politics, psychology, anthropology, and modernism
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199659661
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
1 gr
Høyde
245 mm
Bredde
165 mm
Dybde
35 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
486

Forfatter
Empson, William
Redaktør
Perry Seamus

Biografisk notat

William Empson (1906-1984), poet, critic and essayist, is most famous for his first book, Seven Types of Ambiguity, begun while he was in Cambridge undergraduate. After a stint teaching in Japan and China, he worked for the BBC throughout the Second World War, afterwards returning to China for a longer stay. He was a professor of the University of Sheffield between 1952 and 1971, and was knighted in 1979. His other notable works include The Structure of Complex Words and Milton's God. Collected Poems was published in 1955, and his Complete Poems was published in 2000 by the Penguin Press Seamus Perry is Professor of English Literature and Massey Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford. His publications include Coleridge and the Uses of Division and Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection, and, co-edited with Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Tennyson Among the Poets (all OUP).

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