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Born September 27, 1906 • England
Died April 15, 1984 (aged 77) • London • England
Notable Works “Milton’s God” • “Seven Types of Ambiguity” • “The Gathering Storm”
Movement / Style New Criticism
Subjects Of Study poetry

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Black and white photograph of William Empson working at the BBC as a news editor for the Eastern Service on August 10, 1946.
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I.A. Richards
British critic and poet
T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study.
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
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F.R. Leavis
British critic
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Irish-born author and scholar
Portrait of Gilbert Keith Chesterton wearing glasses and a suit, with a mustache and tousled hair, looking directly at the camera.
G.K. Chesterton
British author
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Robert Graves
British writer
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Sir Herbert Read.
Sir Herbert Read
British art critic
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John Wain
British critic and writer
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T.E. Hulme
English critic and poet
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Kathleen Raine
British writer
C. Day-Lewis, 1968.
C. Day-Lewis
British poet
portrait of Austin Dobson
Austin Dobson
British author
Quiller-Couch, 1943
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
British writer
Abercrombie, Lascelles
Lascelles Abercrombie
British author
Edward Young, detail of an oil painting by Joseph Highmore; in All Souls College, Oxford
Edward Young
English author
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Sir J. C. Squire
British journalist and author

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