Following the publication of Seven Types of Ambiguity in 1930
William Empson was quickly recognised as a critic of great
originality and unique creative gifts and he has inspired a whole
new method and style of approach in literary criticism. But this is
the first full-length study of his work and it is an important part
of Dr Norris's purpose to account for the gulf that has emerged
between Empson's viewpoint and the development of his ideas by
others, especially the American New Critics, and for the consequent
failure of Empson's later books to generate the informed discussion
they demand and deserve. Here particular attention is given to his
critical summa, The Structure of Complex Words. To understand
Empson's work as a consistent whole, Dr Norris argues, one must
relate it to his philosophy of humanistic rationalism. This is to
give a new perspective not only to his practical criticism but also
to his differences with Eliot and Leavis and to his anti-Christian
polemic.
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