Cold Feet
Frank Kermode, 22 July 1993
Essays on Renaissance Literature. Vol. I: Donne and the New Philosophy
by William Empson, edited by John Haffenden.
Cambridge, 296 pp., £35, March 1993,0 521 44043 2 Show More
by William Empson, edited by John Haffenden.
Cambridge, 296 pp., £35, March 1993,
William Empson: The Critical Achievement
edited by Chistopher Norris and Nigel Mapp.
Cambridge, 319 pp., £35, March 1993,0 521 35386 6 Show More
edited by Chistopher Norris and Nigel Mapp.
Cambridge, 319 pp., £35, March 1993,
“... much less influential than the very early (and prodigious) Seven Types of Ambiguity. Christopher Norris comes right out and calls Complex Words ‘a work of deconstruction’. His collection is meant to demonstrate that Empson can be accommodated in modern theory. It can now be shown that he was in many ways anticipating the interests and procedures of a ... ”
