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Tables of Contents for The Complete Poems of William Empson
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Abbreviations
viii
Introduction
xi
Acknowledgements
lxvi
Table of Dates
lxx
Bibliography
lxxvi
THE COMPLETE POEMS
The Fire Sermon
3
1
`Mother, saying Anne good night'
4
1
Song of the amateur psychologist
5
3
Two centos
8
1
Two songs from a libretto
9
1
The Ants
10
1
Value is in Activity
11
1
Invitation to Juno
12
1
The World's End
13
1
Plenum and Vacuum
14
1
Une Brioche pour Cerbere
15
1
Rolling the Lawn
16
1
Dissatisfaction with Metaphysics
17
1
Poem about a Ball in the Nineteenth Century
18
1
Address to a tennis-player
19
1
New World Bistres
20
1
Sea Voyage
21
1
High Dive
22
2
To an Old Lady
24
1
Part of Mandevil's Travels
25
2
Laus Melpomines
27
1
The Extasie
28
1
Camping Out
29
1
Insomnia
30
1
Letter I
31
1
Letter II
32
1
Villanelle
33
1
Arachne
34
1
The Scales
35
1
Essay
36
1
Legal Fiction
37
1
Sleeping out in a College Cloister
38
1
Earth has Shrunk in the Wash
39
1
`I remember to have wept'
40
2
To Charlotte Haldane
42
1
Flighting for Duck
43
2
Letter III
45
1
Rebuke for a dropped brick
46
1
Myth
47
1
UFA Nightmare
48
1
Warning to undergraduates
49
3
This Last Pain
52
2
Description of a View
54
1
Homage to the British Museum
55
1
Note on Local Flora
56
1
Letter IV
57
2
Doctrinal Point
59
1
Letter V
60
1
Letter VI: a marriage
61
3
Bacchus
64
3
Your Teeth are Ivory Towers
67
2
Aubade
69
2
The Fool
71
1
The Shadow
72
1
The Small Bird to the Big
73
1
Four Legs, Two Legs, Three Legs
74
1
Reflection from Rochester
75
1
Courage means Running
76
2
Ignorance of Death
78
1
Missing Dates
79
1
Success
80
1
Just a Smack at Auden
81
2
The Beautiful Train
83
1
Manchouli
84
1
Reflection from Anita Loos
85
1
The Teasers
86
1
`Not but they die'
87
1
Advice
88
1
Anecdote from Talk
89
1
China
90
1
Autumn on Nan-Yueh
91
8
Let it go
99
1
Thanks for a Wedding Present
100
1
Sonnet
101
1
`The ages change'
102
1
Chinese Ballad
103
1
The Birth of Steel
104
7
Appendix 1. Empson on Notes
111
4
Appendix 2. William Empson in conversation with Christopher Ricks
115
11
Appendix 3. On Stopping Poetry
126
3
Appendix 4. I. A. Richards on `Legal Fiction'
129
2
Appendix 5. Winchester Verses?
131
2
Appendix 6. A Fragment and a Squib
133
2
Appendix 7. Publication of Empson's Poems
135
4
Notes
139
267
Index of Titles and First Lines
406