Monitor · SEASON 8
Empson Apart
Episode 6 · 1965-01-26
- Documentary
Episode overview
with Jonathan Miller including Empson Apart William Empson holds a curious and special place among modern English poets. He started life as a mathematician and wrote much of his poetry, as well as Seven Types of Ambiguity, while still studying at Cambridge in the 1920s. Since then he has taught widely in China and Japan. In tonight's film he talks about some of his poems and their meaning to him. and Michael Podro Art as detective story-a display of the methods of Erwin Panofsky.
Season 8 episodes
1. Episode 11964-11-17
2. Joe Tilson1964-12-01
3. Larkin and Betjeman: Down Cemetery Road1964-12-15
4. A Christmas Stocking1964-12-29
5. Robert Lowell1965-01-12
6. Empson Apart1965-01-26
7. David Sylvester: What the Pundits Say1965-02-09
8. Beginning to End1965-02-23
9. Matters of Time1965-03-09
10. JB: A Portrait of Sir John Barbirolli1965-03-11
11. Choice of Surroundings1965-03-23
12. People in Rather Odd Circumstances1965-04-06
13. Silence, Exile, and Cunning1965-04-20
14. Norman Mailer1965-05-04
15. The Debussy Film1965-05-18
16. The Frozen Frame1965-06-01
17. Private Eye and Public Place1965-06-15
18. Always on Sunday1965-06-29
19. Art and Delusion1965-07-13
