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William Empson

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Also known as Sir William Empson

English literary critic and poet (1906–1984)

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  • 50 Years in the Church of Rome
  • The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal
  • The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal
  • The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal
  • The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal

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5 total works indexed

  1. VMD: Visual molecular dynamics

    · 1996 · cited 61,639x

  2. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

    · 1976 · cited 43,946x

  3. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

    · 1983 · cited 39,024x

  4. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

    · 2010 · cited 30,751x

  5. Preparation of Graphitic Oxide

    · 1958 · cited 28,537x

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Quotes

  • “An ambiguity, in ordinary speech, means something very pronounced, and as a rule witty or deceitful....any verbal nuance, however slight, which gives room for alternative reactions to the same piece of language.”
  • “Man, as the prying housemaid of the soul.”
  • “All those large dreams by which men long live wellAre magic-lanterned on the smoke of hell.”
  • “Feign then what's by a decent tact believedAnd act that state is only so conceived,And build an edifice of formFor house where phantoms may keep warm.”
  • “There is a supreme God in the ethnological section; ... His smooth wood creeps with all the creeds of the world.”
  • “Attending there let us absorb the cultures of nations And dissolve into our judgement all their codes. Then, being clogged with a natural hesitation (People are continually asking one the way out), Let us stand here and admit that we have no road.”

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William Empson
date of birth
1906-09-27
date of death
1984-05-15
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1906 births1984 deaths20th-century English poetsAcademics of the University of SheffieldAcademic staff of the National Southwestern Associated UniversityAlumni of Magdalene College, CambridgeBritish literary theoristsEnglish literary criticsFellows of the British AcademyFormalist poetsKnights BachelorNew CriticismPeople educated at Winchester CollegePeople from the East Riding of YorkshireSchool of Letters faculty