This edited collection of letters by William Empson (1906-1984),
one of the foremost writers and literary critics of the twentieth
century, ranges across the entirety of his career. Parts of the
correspondence record the development of ideas that were to come to
fruition in seminal texts including Seven Types of Ambiguity, The
Structure of Complex Words, and Milton's God. The topics of other
letters range from Shakespeare's Dark Lady to Marvell's marriage
and Byron's bisexuality. Empson relished correspondence that was
combative, if not downright aggressive. As a result, parts of this
edition take the form of a serial disputation with other critics of
the period, including Frank Kermode, Helen Gardner, Philip
Hobsbaum, and I. A. Richards. Other notable correspondents include
A. Alvarez, Bonamy Dobree, Leslie Fiedler, Graham Hough, C. K.
Ogden, George Orwell, Kathleen Raine, John Crowe Ransom,
Christopher Ricks, Laura Riding, A. L. Rowse, Stephen Spender, E.
M. W. Tillyard, Rosemond Tuve, John Wain, and G. Wilson
Knight.
All readers of literary history and criticism will stand to
benefit from this edition. Empson is universally credited as the
man who "invented" modern literary criticism, so that all of his
writings make a signal addition to the canon of his works. This
selection provides a context for the evaluation of Empson's total
literary output; and in many letters Empson seeks to defend his
ideas against both published and personal attacks. This volume not
only fills in all the missing links, it adds up to a completely new
volume of critical writings by Empson.
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