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William Empson (1906-1984) is best known for being one of the most important and idiosyncratic literary critics of the 20th Century. Empson's work, Seven Types of Ambiguity, was published when he was only twenty-four years old. His ideas expressed aided the New Criticism movement in America.

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William Empson (Poetry Archive)