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

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

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