The central function of imaginative literature is to make y… - William Empson

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The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.

William Empson

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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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T. S. Eliot Seamus Heaney W. H. Auden Oliver Wendell Holmes Hilaire Belloc

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

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

The man writes with such genuine passion for the books he's discussing. With so many critics you feel they're writing so people will say they're good critics.

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own. - William Empson

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