Seven Types of Ambiguity
by William Empson
258 pages· 2008· ISBN 9781443731126
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In his enjoyable readings of ambiguity, puns and paradox, Empson draws on a variety of authors from Geoffrey Chaucer to T.S. Eliot, illuminating the strategies of individual writers and creating a general theory of poetic practice - wide-ranging, witty and still controversial today.
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