William Empson: Some Versions of Pastoral
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 12 November 2020
- ISBN 9780199659661
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages486 pages
- Size 245x165x35 mm
- Weight 1 g
- Language English 112
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Short description:
Some Versions of Pastoral is one of the most famous books of literary criticism of the twentieth century, with chapters of unrivalled brilliance that include celebrated discussions of Shakespeare, Milton, and Lewis Carroll. This is the first edition to supply a full critical commentary, bringing the book into a new currency for a modern audience.
MoreLong description:
William Empson is, alongside T. S. Eliot, the greatest genius among twentieth-century critics, and Some Versions of Pastoral is widely recognised as one of the most extraordinary works of the golden age of English literary criticism. Ranging with astonishing virtuosity between works of several centuries and moving purposefully between cultures, William Empson has dazzling things to say here about Shakespeare and the Elizabethan theatre, the political poetry of Marvell, Milton's Paradise Lost, the complex satire of John Gay's Beggar's Opera, and the convoluted psychology at work in the Alice books of Lewis Carroll. The book is alert to questions of politics, psycho-analysis, and anthropology, and speaks to a wide range of contemporary concerns. Written in Empson's charismatically informal and wonderfully approachable voice, the book appeared in 1935 without footnotes or references. This edition is the first to identify the quotations and allusions, to explain the pertinence of his references, and to place the work within its Empsonian context. It is published with an appendix of other texts by Empson which illuminate the issues at work in the book.
Some Versions of Pastoral has an implicit (occasionally explicit) commitment to interpreting literature as an aspect of 'social conflict', recognizing that the genre of the pastoral has an ideological function: to represent 'the beautiful relation between the rich and the poor'.
Table of Contents:
Editor's Introduction
Some Versions of Pastoral
Preface to the 1974 edition
Proletarian Literature
Double Plots
They That Have Power
Marvell's Garden
Milton and Bentley
The Beggar's Opera
Alice in Wonderland
Appendix 1: Related Writings
THe Negation of Negation (1927)
Elizabethan Rogues (1930)
To I.A. Richards (1932)
Mrs Dalloway as a Political Satire (1932)
Introduction [to T.S. Eliot, Selected Essays] (1933)
Some Versions of Pastoral (1935)
Pantheism and the new Astronomy (1936)
Appendix 2: James Smith, 'On Metaphysical Poetry'
Commentary
Textual Notes
Corresponding page numbers in the principal editions of Some Versions of Pastoral
