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On Empson / Michael Wood.

On Empson / Michael Wood.

On Empson / Michael Wood.

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVaWaLEbl

On Empson / Michael Wood.

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Full title

On Empson / Michael Wood.

Publisher

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]

Call Numbers

G 2017/2276

Record Identifier

74VKVaWaLEbl

MMS ID

991024103021602626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

212 pages ; 19 cm.

Content type

text

Media type

unmediated

Carrier type

volume

Contents

Empson's Intentions -- The Strangeness of the World -- Large Dreams -- The Other Case -- All in Flight -- Sibylline Leaves -- The Smoke of Hell.

Publication information

Publisher

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]

Place of Publication

New Jersey

Date Published

[2017]

More information

Scope and Contents

Summary

Are literary critics writers? As Michael Wood says, "Not all critics are writers--perhaps most of them are not--and some of them are better when they don't try to be." The British critic and poet William Empson (1906-84), one of the most important and influential critics of the twentieth century, was an exception--a critic who was not only a writer...

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Full title

On Empson / Michael Wood.

Authors, Artists and Contributors
Notes

General note

Writers on writers

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-212).

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

G 2017/2276

Record Identifier

74VKVaWaLEbl

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVaWaLEbl

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ISBN

0691163766 hardcover

9780691163765 hardcover

DDC

821.912

MMS ID

991024103021602626

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