It’s great to change your mind
Christopher Ricks, 7 February 1985
Seven Types of Ambiguity
by William Empson.
Hogarth, 258 pp., £4.95, September 1984,0 7012 0556 3 Show More
by William Empson.
Hogarth, 258 pp., £4.95, September 1984,
“... really did believe in God, they accepted the ample evidence that he was like a capricious earthly king.’ This has unexpected reserves of pity and respect – unexpected, that is, in anyone other than Empson. The ones whom he does not respect are the latterday saints, the sanctimonious distorters and narrowers of the great writers. Again and again his ... ”