of its ill effects is to make the young people regard all literature as a terrific nag or scold. Independently of this, a strong drive has been going on to recover the children for orthodox or traditional religious beliefs; ... and when you understand all that, you may just be able to understand how they manage to present James Joyce as a man devoted to the God who was satisfied by the crucifixion. The concordat was reached over his dead body. Bibliography Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930) Face of the Buddha (1931, first published in 2016) Some Versions of Pastoral (1935) The Structure of Complex Words (1951) Collected Poems (1956, 1962, 1984) Milton's God (1961) Using Biography (1985) Essays on Shakespeare (1986) Faustus and the Censor (1987) Essays on Renaissance Literature: Volume 1, Donne and the New Philosophy (1993) Essays on Renaissance Literature: Volume 2, The Drama (1994) Argufying: Essays on Literature and Culture (1987) The Strengths of Shakespeare's Shrew: Essays, Memoirs and Interviews (1996) The Complete Poems of William Empson – ed. Haffenden The Royal Beasts and Other Works – London: Chatto & Windus (1986) Selected books about Empson Frank Day, Sir William Empson: An Annotated Bibliography, London: Garland, 1984. Philip and Averil Gardner, The God Approached: A Commentary on the Poems of William Empson, London: Chatto & Windus, 1978. John Haffenden, William Empson, Vol. 1: Among the Mandarins, Oxford University Press, 2005. John Haffenden, William Empson, Vol. 2: Against the Christians, Oxford University Press, 2006. Christopher Norris and Nigel Mapp, ed., William Empson: The Critical Achievement, Cambridge University Press, 1993. Notes and references External links "William Empson's Fixated Faith": an article in The Times Literary Supplement by Eric Griffiths, 24 October 2007 "The Savage Life": Sir Frank Kermode reviews vol. 1 of John Haffenden's biography of William Empson from London Review of Books "Pleasure, Change, and the Canon": Sir Frank Kermode's Tanner Lectures on Human Values at The University of Utah The Asian Empson: An Online, Open-Access Trilingual Bibliography, a searchable system containing the full bibliography by and on Empson in a downloadable format 1906 births 1984 deaths New Criticism Formalist poets English literary critics Academics of the University of Sheffield People educated at Winchester College Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge British literary theorists School of Letters faculty Academic staff of the National Southwestern Associated University 20th-century English poets People from the East Riding of Yorkshire Fellows of