biography
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Empson, Sir William
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| lived:
| (1906–84)
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| biography:
| Poet and critic, born in Howden, near Hull, NE England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and became professor of English literature at Tokyo (1931–4) and Beijing (1937–9, 1947–53), working in the interim with the BBC's Far Eastern Service. From 1953 to 1971 he was professor of English literature at Sheffield University. He wrote several major critical works, notably Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930), and his Collected Poems were published in 1955. The Complete Poems of William Empson (ed. John Haffenden) appeared in 2000. He was knighted in 1979. |
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