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The Independent (Review), January 19, 2007
Biography is a dominant form these days, and Haffenden's is one of
the best.
Review
John Haffenden is calm and accepting in his account of Empson's private life. (John Batchelor, Modern Language Review )
John Haffenden's monumental two-volume biography leaves us in no doubt of the importance of Empson's upbringing as a scion of Yorkshire gentry...One of the big achievements of Haffenden's narrative is the painstaking account of Empson's gradual maturation as a critic. (Jason Harding, Essays in Criticism )
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 )
This is scholarship in the grand style (Contemporary Poetry Review )
Biography is a dominant form these days, and Haffenden's is one of the best. (Fred Inglis, The Independent (Review) )
The culmination of a majestic achievement (Mark Bostridge, Independent on Sunday )
This is a definitive work, brimming with dry humour, acute political and literary analysis and a quiet respect for Empson's defining idiosyncrasies. (Tim Martin, Telegraph )
His two-volume Empson now ranks, with say, Holmes on Coleridge. McCarthy on Morris, Bellos on Perec, Ellman on Joyce and Wilde: it is one of the great literary biographies. (Kevin Jackson, Sunday Times Culture )
It would be high enough praise to say that Haffenden has equalled the achievement of his first volume; the reality is that he has excelled it. (Kevin Jackson, Sunday Times Culture )
Haffenden has given us an Empson we should be arguing about, and arguing with, well into the future. (Peter McDonald, Literary Review )
Impressive. (Andrew Motion, The Guardian )
Resolutely unhysterical, affectionately written and delightfully incisive. (Tim Martin, Daily Telegraph )
Magisterial biography. (Tim Martin, Daily Telegraph )
Immense and magnificent biography (Frank Kermode, London Review of Books )
[A] superlative work (Eric Griffiths )
Haffenden's collection of material and mastery of the mass of published and unpublished documents is exemplary...Taken together his two volumes give a splendid sense of their subject, and of the literary, intellectual and political milieux in which Empson worked. (David Fuller, The Review of English Studies, Volume 58, Number 237 )
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Biography is a dominant form these days, and Haffenden's is one of
the best.
Review
John Haffenden is calm and accepting in his account of Empson's private life. (John Batchelor, Modern Language Review )
John Haffenden's monumental two-volume biography leaves us in no doubt of the importance of Empson's upbringing as a scion of Yorkshire gentry...One of the big achievements of Haffenden's narrative is the painstaking account of Empson's gradual maturation as a critic. (Jason Harding, Essays in Criticism )
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 )
This is scholarship in the grand style (Contemporary Poetry Review )
Biography is a dominant form these days, and Haffenden's is one of the best. (Fred Inglis, The Independent (Review) )
The culmination of a majestic achievement (Mark Bostridge, Independent on Sunday )
This is a definitive work, brimming with dry humour, acute political and literary analysis and a quiet respect for Empson's defining idiosyncrasies. (Tim Martin, Telegraph )
His two-volume Empson now ranks, with say, Holmes on Coleridge. McCarthy on Morris, Bellos on Perec, Ellman on Joyce and Wilde: it is one of the great literary biographies. (Kevin Jackson, Sunday Times Culture )
It would be high enough praise to say that Haffenden has equalled the achievement of his first volume; the reality is that he has excelled it. (Kevin Jackson, Sunday Times Culture )
Haffenden has given us an Empson we should be arguing about, and arguing with, well into the future. (Peter McDonald, Literary Review )
Impressive. (Andrew Motion, The Guardian )
Resolutely unhysterical, affectionately written and delightfully incisive. (Tim Martin, Daily Telegraph )
Magisterial biography. (Tim Martin, Daily Telegraph )
Immense and magnificent biography (Frank Kermode, London Review of Books )
[A] superlative work (Eric Griffiths )
Haffenden's collection of material and mastery of the mass of published and unpublished documents is exemplary...Taken together his two volumes give a splendid sense of their subject, and of the literary, intellectual and political milieux in which Empson worked. (David Fuller, The Review of English Studies, Volume 58, Number 237 )
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