Word: empson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first book of verse, foresaw the Lost Generation: "What life to lead and where to go/ After the War, after the War?" Critics in the early 1920s classed and anthologized Graves as a Georgian poet. In the late 1920s, his close analysis of a Shakespeare sonnet impressed Critic William Empson and led, indirectly, to the textual scrutinies of the New Criticism of the 1940s...
...others around the world--including in the Soviet Union--have managed to escape so far. But, as the author told friends and critics repeatedly, the book is also about the possible deterioration of Christian republics. One of Orwell's consumptive predictions, given to the noted critic William Empson, that his book would be used and twisted for political reasons, has unquestionably come true...