William Empson

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.

Jonathan Bate has written that the three greatest English literary critics of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries are Johnson, Hazlitt and Empson, "not least because they are the funniest". Provided by Wikipedia
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    The face of the Buddha /

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    The complete poems /

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    The book, film & theatre reviews of William Empson : originally printed in the Cambridge magazine Granta, 1927-1929, and now collected for the Foundling Press

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    Seven types of ambiguity /

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    Letter IV

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    The royal beasts and other works /

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    The structure of complex words /

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    The structure of complex words /

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    Selected letters of William Empson /

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    Milton's God

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    Some versions of pastoral /

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    The structure of complex words /

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    Seven types of ambiguity

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    Collected poems

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    The structure of complex words

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    Poems /

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    Essays on Renaissance literature /

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    Seven types of ambiguity /

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    Collected poems

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    Using biography /

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