William Empson : against the Christians / / John Haffenden.

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Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:xxii, 797 p., [16] p. of plates :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • The BBC war
  • The war within the BBC
  • Chinabound
  • Sounding the south : Kenyon College, Summer 1948
  • Siege and liberation
  • The new China
  • Changes in China, and Kenyon again
  • Quitting Communist China
  • Final reckoning : the affair of Fei Hsiao-t'ung
  • 'A mighty raspberry' : the structure of complex words
  • Homing to Yorkshire
  • From poetry to the queen
  • Menage a trois
  • The antiChristian : Milton's God
  • 'They think good literature is a tremendous scolding' : from Sheffield to Legon
  • The road to retirement
  • Rescuing Donne and Coleridge
  • Roamings in retirement : from Toronto to Miami
  • Faustus : finale.