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casparb's review against another edition
The most annoying thing about this book is that as well as being one of the most famous most influential works of literary criticism of the entire century Empson wrote it when he was 21, an undergrad. I hate him
It's really good & Eliot stomps all up and down & WE challenges his criticism plenty as he should. A lot of it turns out as close analysis !! Which is lovely ! Like to wander over Donne always
I just can't get over that he wrote it then he's so fluent so warm it's exquisitely written so far as literary theory goes I refuse to think on't
It's really good & Eliot stomps all up and down & WE challenges his criticism plenty as he should. A lot of it turns out as close analysis !! Which is lovely ! Like to wander over Donne always
I just can't get over that he wrote it then he's so fluent so warm it's exquisitely written so far as literary theory goes I refuse to think on't
aristosakaion's review against another edition
really enjoyed the new critical lens that empson brought, and sometimes i'm vaguely mixing the second and third ambiguity, and i'm not sure how the fifth can be consciously written. i would have enjoyed this more, i think, if it were discussed in class, who would probably use more contemporary poems as examples, at least by poets starting from the Beatniks and the New York School going forward. some of the arguments are lost on me when empson uses poetry that's almost archaic (save Shakespeare).
alexlanz's review against another edition
"What fun, all the Freudian stuff." 😂
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