Related Material

Related Material:

Papers of the Empson Family of Yokefleet [U DYK]

Other repositories:

The majority of William Empson's papers are held in the University of Harvard archives

The originals of items described in this catalogue are held at Sheffield University Library, reference MS 292

Appointments diaries and miscellaneous correspondence, c.1960-69, Sheffield University Library

Miscellaneous letters, National Library of Scotland, Manuscripts Division

Correspondence and literary papers, from1929, in the Chatto & Windus archives, Reading University Library

Letters to John Hayward, 1931-1956, Cambridge University: Kings College Modern Archive Centre

Correspondence with members of BBC staff, 1936-1962, BBC Written Archives Centre

Publication Notes:

Works by William Empson:
Seven types of ambiguity (1930)
Collected poems (1949, revised 1955)
Some versions of Pastoral (1935)
The structure of complex words (1951)
Milton's God (1961)
Faustus and the censor: the English Faust-book and Marlowe's 'Doctor Faustus' (1987)
Complete poems (edited by John Haffenden 2000)

Works about William Empson:
Frank Day: Sir William Empson: an annotated bibliography (1984)
Roma Gill (ed.): William Empson: the man and his work (1974)