![]() ![]() This persisted till we reached the lecture hall, where a remarkably large audience of students was awaiting the poet. I think she’s the clue to the whole thing.” Since I didn’t know what the whole thing was, the clue to it reduced me to silence. ![]() Empson: “Do you know much about Andrew Marvell?” I: “Only what everybody knows, I suppose.” Empson: “Do you know much about his housekeeper?” I: “Not a thing.” Empson: “Pity. Nothing of the meal stays in my memory, but when Empson and I were taking the short walk from the Montrose Hotel to the campus, he surprised me by these words. Empson be coming?, the hotel, the meal before the reading, taxis, and so forth. White would do the work entailed: write the letter of invitation, fix the date, fee, the travel, would Mrs. One of my colleagues, Norman White, suggested that I might like to invite Empson to read his poems. I was Professor of Modern English and American Literature at University College, Dublin. I spent one evening in William Empson’s company, in a manner of speaking. ![]()
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