2. Empson of course is best remembered as one of the founding fathers of the New Criticism because of his 1930 book 7 Types of Ambiguity
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13. Empson's tone and voice in Milton's God is very close to that of Hitchens in God Is Not Great -- talk of wickedness, torture, etc.
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14. As far as I know, Hitchens only referred to Empson in passing, but I think Milton's God must have been formative for Hitchens.
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@HeerJeet Emmm wasn't Empson a little too sympathetic to communism to be called a liberal? -
@peligrietzer No, by the time of Milton's God, Empson was definitely liberal and not pro-communist. - Show replies
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