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Are literary critics writers? As Michael Wood says, "Not all critics are writers--perhaps most of them are not--and some of them are better when they don't try to be." The British critic and poet William Empson (1906-84), one of the most important and influential critics of the twentieth century, was an exception--a critic who was not only a writer but also a great one. In this brief book, Wood, himself one of the most gifted writers among contemporary critics, explores Empson as a writer, a distinguished poet whose ...

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    • Title: On Empson by Michael Wood
    • Publisher: Princeton University Press
    • Print ISBN: 9780691163765, 0691163766
    • eText ISBN: 9781400884742
    • Edition: 2017
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