William Empson, 2 : Against the Christians.

This is the concluding volume of a biography of William Empson, one of the foremost poets and literary critics of the twentieth century. It covers his turbulent years writing wartime propaganda for the BBC, through his return to China in the later 1940s to his time at Sheffield University, when he e...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Haffenden, John
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, UK, 2006.
Subjects:
Empson, William, > 1906-1984.
Empson, William, > 1906-1984
1900-1999
Poets, English > 20th century > Biography.
Criticism > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Critics > Great Britain > Biography.
Poètes anglais > 20e siècle > Biographies.
Critique > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Critiques > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies.
Criticism
Critics
Poets, English
Great Britain
Biographies
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ABBREVIATIONS; CHRONOLOGY; 1. The BBC War; 2. The War within the BBC; 3. Chinabound; 4. Sounding the South: Kenyon College, Summer 1948; 5. Siege and Liberation; 6. The New China; 7. Changes in China; and Kenyon Again; 8. Quitting Communist China; 9. Final Reckoning: The Affair of Fei Hsiao-t'ung; 10. 'A Mighty Raspberry': The Structure of Complex Words; 11. Homing to Yorkshire; 12. From Poetry to the Queen; 13. Ménage à Trois; 14. The Anti-Christian: Milton's God; 15. 'They think good literature is a tremendous scolding': From Sheffield to Legon.

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