William Empson: Some Versions of Pastoral

by William Empson

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199659664
• ISBN13: 9780199659661
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 486 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"