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Synopsis

Empson has long been applauded for the dazzling intelligence and emotional passion of his poems. Praised in his lifetime by the likes of T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and John Betjeman, his reputation contines to be high. His poems take a wide range of themes from metaphysics to melancholy, social climbing to political satire, and from love to loss.

Reviews

Critic Review:

‘The most desirable of complete poems this year was that of William Empson, a great work of scholarship and annotation by Haffenden, but primarily a wonderful work of creation by Empson’ David Sexton, Evening Standard, Books of the Year

‘Splendidly edited … a volume of which the poet would surely have been vastly proud’ Ian Hamilton, Sunday Telegraph

‘At his best … Empson wrote with unforgettable clarity and passion’ Lachlan Mackinnon, Daily Telegraph