Brilliant essay abt lit-crit's WILLIAM EMPSON & the Age of Ambiguity (he wrote my bible <Seven Tyupes of Ambiguity>) https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/empson-style-from-despair/ …
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Replying to @RonRosenbaum1
I love Empson, among other reasons, because he was the funniest literary critic who ever lived. And a wonderful prose writer & poet
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And as author of <Milton's God> perhaps the most provocative polemic on religion to be found.
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Replying to @RonRosenbaum1
Yep. I always thought someone should write an essay on the possible impact of Empson on later anti-religious polemicists like Hitchens
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Definitely, both portrayed a god who demanded blood sacrifices as unworthy.
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Replying to @RonRosenbaum1
Yep. And I think Empson's masterful use of irony & invective left its mark on Hitchens.
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