William Empson

William Empson, who died in 1984, was the author of – among many other books – Seven Types of Ambiguity, The Structure of Complex Words and Milton’s God.

In the LRB Archive:

• Red on Red witnesses the inauguration of the People’s Republic of China · 30 September 1999

• Moonlight Robbery: China 1938 · 5 October 1995

• Magnificent Cuckolds · 24 January 1991

• Teaching English in the Far East · 17 August 1989

• Three Hitherto Unpublished Poems · 17 August 1989

• The Queen and I · 26 November 1987

• The Ultimate Novel · 2 September 1982

  • Ulysses by Hugh Kenner
  • A Starchamber Quiry: James Joyce Centennial Volume 1882-1982 edited by E.L. Epstein

• The Ultimate Novel · 19 August 1982

  • Ulysses by Hugh Kenner
  • A Starchamber Quiry: A James Joyce Centennial Volume 1882-1982 edited by E.L. Epstein

• William Empson remembers I.A. Richards · 5 June 1980

• Elizabethan Spirits · 17 April 1980

  • The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age by Frances Yates

• Advanced Thought · 24 January 1980

  • Genesis of Secrecy by Frank Kermode

• Fairy Flight in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ · 25 October 1979

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream edited for the Arden Shakespeare series by Harold Brooks
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The Arden Shakespeare series editor Harold Brooks

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