Publication

1966 - New Directions, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

64,000 words, Guess

Page Count

256 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC808.1
  • LCCPN1031 .E5 1961
  • LCCDK651.W2 W3

Alternate Titles

  • 7 types of ambiguity

Description

Ambiguity, according to Empson, includes "any verbal nuance, however slight, which gives room for alternative reactions to the same piece of language." From this definition, broad enough by his own admission sometimes to see "stretched absurdly far," he launches into a brilliant discussion, under seven classifications of differing complexity and depth, of such works, among others, as Shakespeare's plays and the poetry of Chaucer, Donne, Marvell, Pope, Wordsworth, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T. S. Eliot.

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Series Statement

  • New Directions paperbook -- NDP204, 1966

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  • Seven types of ambiguityNew Directions1966-01-01
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