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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2014
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      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2014
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      3. But Empson differed from other New Critics in an important respect: he was liberal rationalists, they were mostly conservative Christians

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2014
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      4. The American New Critics in particular were high church Anglican tories, sometimes even neo-confederates.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2014
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      5. The exultation of the text in New Criticism was liturgy by other means.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2014
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      6. A digression: mid-20th century literary criticism was often theology waged by other means: New Critics, Frye, McLuhan, TS Eliot, CS Lewis

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2014
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      7. Empson hated what he called the "neo-Christian" mood of 20th century literary criticism, which he saw as a retreat from liberalism.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2014
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      8. Empson's 1961 book Milton's God was his full throttle attack on the neo-Christians, an attempt to liberate literature from theology.

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2014
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      9. Thesis of Milton's God: "The Christian God...is the wickedest thing yet invented by the black heart of man."

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2014
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      10. Further thesis: Milton tried to make Christian God more palatable to morality. Milton failed but his failure created fruitful tension.

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2014
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      11. In sum, the reason Paradise Lost is so good is because the God in the poem is so bad. So poem works to undermine faith.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2014

      12. The notable thing about Milton's God is not just argument but the tone: a deliberately insolent, school boy naughty nose-tweaking.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2014
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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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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2014
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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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        2. Peli Grietzer‏ @peligrietzer 15 Nov 2014
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          @HeerJeet Emmm wasn't Empson a little too sympathetic to communism to be called a liberal?

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2014
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          @peligrietzer No, by the time of Milton's God, Empson was definitely liberal and not pro-communist.

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