William Empson

William Empson (1906—1984) was the author of Seven Types of Ambiguity and Some Versions of Pastoral. His Complete Poems were recently published. (June 2001)

From the Review

June 21, 2001: Sartre Resartus

No Exit and The Flies Jean-Paul Sartre, translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert

March 4, 1982: 'There Is No Penance Due to Innocence': An Exchange

December 3, 1981: 'There Is No Penance Due to Innocence'

John Donne: Life, Mind and Art by John Carey

June 1, 1978: Milton's God (letter)

October 27, 1977: Compacted Doctrines

Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society by Raymond Williams

June 12, 1975: The Voice of the Underdog

A Rhetoric of Irony by Wayne C. Booth

December 13, 1973: Yeats and the Spirits

Yeats, the Tarot and the Golden Dawn by Kathleen Raine

W.B. Yeats: Memoirs, Autobiography (First Draft) and Journal edited by Denis Donoghue

September 20, 1973: The Rights of Editors (letter)