William Empson, Volume II: Against the Christians
John Haffenden (Professor of English Literature, University of Sheffield)
William Empson, Volume II: Against the Christians
John Haffenden (Professor of English Literature, University of Sheffield)
John Haffenden’s acclaimed biography of William Empson (1906-1984), the foremost English literary critic of the twentieth century, is now available in paperback. The second of two volumes exploring Empson’s remarkable life and work covers his turbulent years writing wartime propaganda for the BBC, through his return to China in the later 1940s to his time at Sheffield University, when he engaged all the more energetically in public controversy.
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