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Tag: William Empson

Composition Time

Romantic poets “admired the poetry of previous generations, very rightly, for the taste it left in the head, and, failing … More

composition as explanation, Gertrude Stein, product versus process, William Empson, writing

Analysis and “Ruining the Fun”

“Secondly, and more seriously, it has been deduced from this belief that you are liable to destroy the poem if … More

analysis, literary criticism, literary theory, new criticism, poetry, William Empson

 

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