William Empson
id:
william-empson-162-1649126
title:
William Empson
text:
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. Jonathan Bate has written that the three greatest English literary critics of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries are Johnson, Hazlitt and Empson, "not least because they are the funniest".
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
English literary critic and poet
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Empson
date created:
2001-08-07T06:41:25Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T17:00:49Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q966870","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q966870"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/William_Empson_%28cropped%29.jpg","width":180,"height":270}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16