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      • Volume 1: Donne and the New Philosophy
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      01 February 2010
      18 March 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511627477
      9780521483605
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511627477
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      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.467kg, 316 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, Literary Theory
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    Following the success in paperback of William Empson's Essays on Shakespeare (1986), this first volume of his Essays on Renaissance Literature (1993) now appears in an accessible format. The volume gathers Empson's passionate and controversial essays on John Donne in the context of contemporary science, and includes previously unpublished pieces on some of the most influential Renaissance writers and scientists. Edited and introduced by leading Empson scholar John Haffenden, this is a book for anyone interested in the Renaissance, the history of science, and the history of literary criticism.'Some of these passages have a sweep as grand as Empson found in Donne.' Eric Griffiths, The Times Literary Supplement'Empson's achievement here as elsewhere comes from the generosity of spirit which made him consistently a great critic.' The New York Review of Books

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    "Empson's achievement here as elsewhere comes from the generosity of spirit which made him consistently a great critic." New York Review of Books

    "Some of these passages have a sweep as grand as Empson found in Donne." Times Literary Supplement

    "...an insightful look into Empson the thinker." Eugene R. Cunner, English Language Notes

    "Anybody who cares about human intelligence at work with literature is in Haffenden's debt." Book Review Digest

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