The 'Collected Poems' is an extraordinary book, says reviewer Ian Tromp. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for programs that ...
Denis Donoghue once hosted poet and critic William Empson for a reading. It was an odd visit by a sometimes misunderstood poet: “Introducing each poem, he indicated in a sentence or two the ...
COLLECTED POEMS OF WILLIAM EMPSON (113 pp.)—Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). There is a kind of “intellectual” poetry that the everyday reader is right in never bothering his head about; if he did, he would ...
MILTON’S GOD (280 pp.)−William Empso−New Directions ($5). Ever since Shakespeare wrote the sonnet They That Have Power to Hurt, people thought they knew what it meant. But in 1935 a young British ...
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