Some Versions of Pastoral: Literary Criticism by William Empson

Some Versions of Pastoral: Literary Criticism

William Empson

298 pages first pub 1935 (editions)

nonfiction classics poetry challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Mr. Empson sees the pastoral convention as including not only poems of shepherd life but any work "about the people but not by or for" them. Finding examples in the writing of every country and century, from Mencius to William Faulkner or Céline, ...

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