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The Spectator, November 18, 2006
Magisterial scholarship
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Haffenden's narrative is driven along with such gusto, such alert intelligence, such obvious pleasure in the task, that no one could reasonably grumble at the story's inordinate length. It is a virtuoso feat of scholarship: a telling demonstration of what biography, as it finest, can actually achieve. (Ian Donaldson Australian Book Review )
...a stunning demonstration of the power of intellectual biography (Ronald Shusterman, Universite de Provence )
'...measured and affectionate in tone, exhaustive in detail, lucid in the exposition of his difficult verse and often anguished life.' (Sam Leith, The Spectator )
Magisterial scholarship (Ruben Christiansen, The Spectator )
A magnificent biography. (Terry Eagleton, New Statesman )
A triumph. It is funny, dense, touching and farcical. This is an exhilarating tale. (Margaret Drabble, Books of the Year, TLS )
Haffenden is without doubt the world's foremost authority on the details of Empson's life. (Jason Harding, TLS )
'a magnificent biography... [a] grippingly readable volume'. (Terry Eagleton, New Statesman Books of the Year )
One of the finest biographies of an English literary figure. (James Wood, Guardian Review )
Magnificent and surprisingly gripping book, intelligently written, with a background of thorough research, well-illustrated and well-indexed. (Anthony Thwaite, Sunday Telegraph )
A wonderful book...Haffenden's research is exhilaratingly deep and wide, his feeling for both the work and the man is warm but always judicious, and his prose is a model of elegant, grown-up clarity, seasoned with quiet and civil wit. (Kevin Jackson, The Sunday Times )
Haffenden is the most genial of scholarly chroniclers, adopting a leisurely and discursive pace and tone that are appropriately Empsonian in warmth and wit, as well as suggestive explications de texte. This is a very long and detailed book, in the door-stopper category but never for a minute dull. (The Spectator )
In some biographies, the biographer has to keep out of his subject's way. On virtually every page of this biography, Empson writes or says something startlingly interesting in his startlingly unusual way. (Adam Phillips, The Observer )
Few critics have done more for poetry than Empson (1906-1984); few have led stranger or more adventurous lives.... Empson's travels make entertaining reading.... The main reason for reading Empson's own writings is to see what he made of the authors he cherished. (He was the best reader Donne ever had.)... In an era when readers debate whether poetry matters, it helps to remember a man who defended it, and pursued his own arguments about it, even to the ends of the earth. (New York Times Book Review )
...a stunning demonstration of the power of intellectual biography (Ronald Shusterman, Universite de Provence )
'...measured and affectionate in tone, exhaustive in detail, lucid in the exposition of his difficult verse and often anguished life.' (Sam Leith, The Spectator )
Magisterial scholarship (Ruben Christiansen, The Spectator )
A magnificent biography. (Terry Eagleton, New Statesman )
A triumph. It is funny, dense, touching and farcical. This is an exhilarating tale. (Margaret Drabble, Books of the Year, TLS )
Haffenden is without doubt the world's foremost authority on the details of Empson's life. (Jason Harding, TLS )
'a magnificent biography... [a] grippingly readable volume'. (Terry Eagleton, New Statesman Books of the Year )
One of the finest biographies of an English literary figure. (James Wood, Guardian Review )
Magnificent and surprisingly gripping book, intelligently written, with a background of thorough research, well-illustrated and well-indexed. (Anthony Thwaite, Sunday Telegraph )
A wonderful book...Haffenden's research is exhilaratingly deep and wide, his feeling for both the work and the man is warm but always judicious, and his prose is a model of elegant, grown-up clarity, seasoned with quiet and civil wit. (Kevin Jackson, The Sunday Times )
Haffenden is the most genial of scholarly chroniclers, adopting a leisurely and discursive pace and tone that are appropriately Empsonian in warmth and wit, as well as suggestive explications de texte. This is a very long and detailed book, in the door-stopper category but never for a minute dull. (The Spectator )
In some biographies, the biographer has to keep out of his subject's way. On virtually every page of this biography, Empson writes or says something startlingly interesting in his startlingly unusual way. (Adam Phillips, The Observer )
Few critics have done more for poetry than Empson (1906-1984); few have led stranger or more adventurous lives.... Empson's travels make entertaining reading.... The main reason for reading Empson's own writings is to see what he made of the authors he cherished. (He was the best reader Donne ever had.)... In an era when readers debate whether poetry matters, it helps to remember a man who defended it, and pursued his own arguments about it, even to the ends of the earth. (New York Times Book Review )
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