William Empson, 2 : Against the Christians.

This is the concluding volume of a biography of William Empson, one of the foremost poets and literary critics of the twentieth century. It covers his turbulent years writing wartime propaganda for the BBC, through his return to China in the later 1940s to his time at Sheffield University, when he e...

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Main Author: Haffenden, John
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Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, UK, 2006
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505 0 |a CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ABBREVIATIONS; CHRONOLOGY; 1. The BBC War; 2. The War within the BBC; 3. Chinabound; 4. Sounding the South: Kenyon College, Summer 1948; 5. Siege and Liberation; 6. The New China; 7. Changes in China; and Kenyon Again; 8. Quitting Communist China; 9. Final Reckoning: The Affair of Fei Hsiao-t'ung; 10. 'A Mighty Raspberry': The Structure of Complex Words; 11. Homing to Yorkshire; 12. From Poetry to the Queen; 13. Ménage à Trois; 14. The Anti-Christian: Milton's God; 15. 'They think good literature is a tremendous scolding': From Sheffield to Legon. 
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