Paperback, 256 pages

English language

Published Feb. 24, 1966 by New Directions.

ISBN:
978-0-8112-0037-0
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OCLC Number:
77515845

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Ambiguity, according to Empson, includes "any verbal nuance, however slight, which gives room for alternative reactions to the same piece of language." From this definition, broad enough by his own admission sometimes to see "stretched absurdly far," he launches into a brilliant discussion, under seven classifications of differing complexity and depth, of such works, among others, as Shakespeare's plays and the poetry of Chaucer, Donne, Marvell, Pope, Wordsworth, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T. S. Eliot.

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Subjects

  • Ambiguität
  • English poetry
  • History and criticism
  • Literatur
  • Poetry

Places

  • Englisch