Johnson, Hazlitt and Empson are the greatest English critic… - William Empson

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Johnson, Hazlitt and Empson are the greatest English critics of their respective centuries not least because they are the funniest.

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Sir William Empson (27 September 1906 – 15 April 1984) was an influential English literary critic and poet.

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Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills.
It is not the effort nor the failure tires.
The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.

Your rights reach down where all owners meet, in Hell's
Pointed exclusive conclave, at earth’s centre
(Your spun farm's root still on that axis dwells);
And up, through galaxies, a growing sector.

It is the pain, it is the pain, endures.
Your chemic beauty burned my muscles through.
Poise of my hands reminded me of yours.

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