The great professor.(William Empson: Volume II: Against the Christians)(Book review)

National Review | May 14, 2007| | Copyright

William Empson: Volume II: Against the Christians, by John Haffenden (Oxford, 824 pp., $65)

FORTY years ago, when the United States was embroiled in an unpopular war and President Lyndon Baines Johnson was being savagely and wittily caricatured in the pages of the upstart New York Review of Books, I stood in a college bookstore hungrily eyeing the section then quaintly known as "Literary Criticism." I had enough money for one book only, and I settled on a New Directions paperback, Seven Types of Ambiguity. I knew nothing about the author, William Empson, but the ...

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