06. Empson Apart

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.