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Critics, as 'barking dogs,' on this view, are of two sorts: those who merely relieve themselves against the flower of beauty, and those, less continent, who after-wards scratch it up. I myself, I must confess, aspire to the second of these classes; unexplained beauty arouses an air of irritation in me, a sense that this would be a good place to scratch; the reasons that make a line of verse likely to give pleasure, I believe, are like the reasons for everything else; one can reason about them; and while it may be true that the roots of beauty ought not to be violated, it seems to me very arrogant of the appreciative critic to think that he could do this, if he chose, by a little scratching.

william empson, seven types of ambiguity

#reckless use of semi colons here which I endorse #empson #prac crit #m

“One can do a great deal to make poetry intelligible.”

It was the nuances of meaning that made poetry possible.

~ Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity

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Zum Träumen. Clare Empson: Eines Tages für Immer. #zumträumen #Empson #EinesTagesFuerImmer #shoppeninbruchsal #wiederoffen #bleibtgesund https://www.instagram.com/p/COu2vuSlXVY/?igshid=1e70msl59qwbf

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