TY - GEN AU - Roma Gill TI - William Empson: The Man and His Work SN - 9781134836031 PY - 2016///0819 CY - Oxford PB - Routledge N2 - This volume of commemorative and celebratory essays, first published in 1974, concentrates on William Empson – the critic, the poet and friend. The papers range from the biographical to the academic, but what every one suggests is the impossibility of separating the man from his work and the ‘life’ from the ‘thought’. This book constitutes an important study of Empson, his work and his impact upon people and literary studies of our time ER -