Ambiguities, Complexities, Puzzles: A Late Encounter with William Empson

The Hudson Review | April 1, 2006| | Copyright

I was barely seventeen when I first heard of ambiguity. It was 1940, and I had just arrived at Radcliffe College. Ambiguity was not yet a Word of Power-not at Harvard, at any rate, where Radcliffe students were vouchsafed a Harvard education, provided a Harvard professor was willing to walk across the Yard and repeat his lectures in our modest, all-girl buildings.

The Harvard English department proffered old-fashioned literary history-packed surveys with reading lists much too long to permit of close reading for ambiguity or anything else. But somehow I met Howard Nemerov, Harvard '41, and ...

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