Empson

At the very least, her clear syntax serves as a foil, in Empson's phrase (see n. below), to the "shuffling" grammar of the "Intimations" Ode, stanza IX.

Notes on 'The 'Power of Sound' and the Great Scheme of Things: Wordsworth Listens to Wordsworth' 2008

At the very least, her clear syntax serves as a foil, in Empson's phrase

The 'Power of Sound' and the Great Scheme of Things: Wordsworth Listens to Wordsworth 2008

So, if we agree with Empson that ambiguities of different kinds are the very stuff of poetry, we must accept also that proofs of greatness are stupid stuff to borrow from Housman, a critic who was often happy to stop at gut responses.

Head Shaking and the best Canadian Poem 2010

"What has passed away is a certain kind of revered and influential critical voice, it is sometimes said: where are today's equivalents of the poet and critic William Empson, the art critic Clement Greenberg, the critic of the novel FR Leavis?"

July 2008 2008

Empson did the same kind of thing, which I suppose is one reason why this is my favourite kind of poetry.

Rain by Don Paterson 2010

Coleridge's criticism, for example - via Empson and then Nietzsche - is absolutely formative of modernist criticism - or if you think of Beckett, who is variously hauled into both Modernist and Post Modernist camps as exemplary, you might get what I mean.

More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007

In the current edition of The American Scholar my friend, Steven Isenberg, recalls lunches in his enthusiastic youth with Auden, Larkin, Forster and Empson.

Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG: 2009

In the current edition of The American Scholar my friend, Steven Isenberg, recalls lunches in his enthusiastic youth with Auden, Larkin, Forster and Empson.

Comment 2009

Empson goes on to say that if Hopkins had been conscious of the two contrary meanings of the word, he would have suppressed the poem.

“The Windhover” : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Larry Fagin told me that he met William Empson and Mick Jagger at the same party as Charles Olson and Anne Waldman in 1966.

From the Book of Mythologies : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007