03432nam 2200661Ia 450 991077795110332120230721021810.01-282-26860-097866122686010-19-157051-6(CKB)1000000000766012(EBL)453611(OCoLC)426050282(SSID)ssj0000272093(PQKBManifestationID)11228803(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000272093(PQKBWorkID)10305148(PQKB)11771258(MiAaPQ)EBC453611(MiAaPQ)EBC4700920(Au-PeEL)EBL453611(CaPaEBR)ebr10317720(Au-PeEL)EBL4700920(CaONFJC)MIL226860(OCoLC)1024276364(EXLCZ)99100000000076601220080305h20092005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWilliam EmpsonVolume IAmong the Mandarins[electronic resource] /John HaffendenOxford Oxford University Press2009,c20051 online resource (734 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-953991-X Includes bibliographical references and index.CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ABBREVIATIONS; CHRONOLOGY; 1. Introduction; 2. In the Blood: Sir Richard Empson, Professor William, and John Henry; 3. 'A horrid little boy, airing my views'; 4. 'Owl Empson'; 5. 'Did I, I wonder, talk too much?'; 6. 'Mr Empson gave a very competent performance': The Multiple Man of Letters; 7. 'His presence spellbound us all': The Experiment Group; 8. The Making of Seven Types of Ambiguity: Influence and Integrity; 9. 'Those Particular Vices': Crisis, Expulsion, and Aftermath; 10. Seven Types of Ambiguity: The Critical Reception; 11. The Trials of Tokyo12. Poems 193513. Scapegoat and Sacrifice: Some Versions of Pastoral; 14. 'Waiting for the end, boys': Politics, Poets, and Mass-Observation; 15. Camping Out: China, 1937-1938; 16. 'The savage life and the fleas and the bombs': China, 1938-1939; 17. Postscript; APPENDIX: FURTHER FAMOUS FOREBEARS; NOTES; INDEXJohn Haffenden's acclaimed biography of William Empson (1906-1984), the foremost English literary critic of the twentieth century, is now available in paperback. An authoritative and compelling account and the first of two volumes exploring his remarkable life and work. - ;William Empson was the foremost English literary critic of the twentieth century. He was a man of huge energy and curiosity, and a genuine eccentric who remained imperturbable in the face of all the extraordinary circumstances in which he found himself. The discovery of contraceptives in his possession by a bedmaker at CambrBritishChinaHistory20th centuryCriticismGreat BritainHistory20th centuryCriticsGreat BritainBiographyPoets, English20th centuryBiographyBritishHistoryCriticismHistoryCriticsPoets, English801.95092Haffenden John222537MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777951103321William Empson3805879UNINA