Wisdom and weirdness ; William Empson, volume 2: Against the Christians By John Haffenden OXFORD [pound]30 (797pp)

The Independent - London | January 19, 2007| | Copyright

The story so far: in the first volume of John Haffenden's biography, William Empson was born in 1906, became a dazzling scholar and poet at Cambridge, was sent down for possessing contraceptives, drank his way around literary London, published two subject-changing books, taught in China after the Japanese invasion and got out with Boys' Own Paper adventures, returning home in 1939 after having stopped off in Los Angeles to go to a park and have a good scream.

Empson joined the BBC in the overseas service, where naturally he acted as Chinese Editor and, working alongside George Orwell, made ...

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