William Empson
English literary critic and poet (1906-1984) · United Kingdom · Writers · Died at 77
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Something wrong?Sir William Empson was an English literary critic and poet, widely influential for his practice of closely reading literary works, a practice fundamental to New Criticism. His best-known work is his first, Seven Types of Ambiguity, published in 1930.
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