The Savage Life
Frank Kermode: The Adventures of William Empson, 19 May 2005
William Empson: Vol. I: Among the Mandarins
by John Haffenden.
Oxford, 695 pp., £30, April 2005,0 19 927659 5 Show More
by John Haffenden.
Oxford, 695 pp., £30, April 2005,
“... Jacob Bronowski and Humphrey Jennings, and those seniors best qualified to judge – I.A. Richards especially – admired him greatly. The quality of his writing as an undergraduate is not surprising only because we have been brought up to believe, with approximate accuracy, that Seven Types of Ambiguity began as essays written for ... ”