This collection of William Empson's essays on Elizabethan and Jacobean drama is the second volume...

At the time of his death in 1984, William Empson was preparing and revising a collection of his e...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extre...

Following the success in paperback of William Empson's Essays on Shakespeare (1986), this first v...

Empson has long been applauded for the dazzling intelligence and emotional passion of his poems. ...

Reprint of the ed. published by New Directions, Norfolk, Conn. in 1961.

Passionate, controversial and illuminating - this collection contains Empson's best short pieces ...

This collection of William Empson's essays on Elizabethan and Jacobean drama is the second volume...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extre...

This is the first scholarly edition of one of the classics of literary criticism. William Empson ...