Buddhists and Christians contrive to agree about death Making death their ideal basis for different ideals. The Communists however disapprove of deat… - William Empson

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 this deep blankness is the real thing strange.
The more things happen to you the more you can't
Tell or remember even what they were. The contradictions cover such a range.
The talk would talk and go so far aslant.
You don't want madhouse and the whole thing there.

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.