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Christopher Ricks

Kenyon Review Classics

Spring 1997

Criticism Untrammeled

By Christopher Ricks

EDITOR’S NOTE: My Credo: A Symposium of Critics appeared in the Autumn 1950 issue of The Kenyon Review. William Empson’s “The Verbal Analysis” was the fourth of four essays in […]