Collected poems / William Empson

Poor copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Front cover detached. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 5 preliminary leaves, 119 pp.; 23 cm. Contents; The ants -- Value is in activity -- Invitation to Juno -- The world's end -- Plenum and vacuum -- Rolling the lawn -- Dissatisfaction with metaphysics -- Poem about a ball in the nineteenth century -- Sea voyage -- High dive -- To an old lady -- Part of Madevil's travels -- Camping out -- Letter I -- Letter II -- Villanelle -- Arachne -- The scales -- Legal fiction -- Sleeping out in a college cloister -- Earth has shrunk in the wash -- Fighting for duck -- Letter III -- This last pain -- Description of a view -- Homage to the British Museum -- Note on local flora -- Letter IV -- Doctrinal point -- Letter V -- Bacchus -- Your teeth are ivory towers -- Aubade -- The fool -- The shadow -- The small bird to the big -- Four legs, three legs, two legs -- Reflection from Rochester -- Courage means running -- Ignorance of death -- Missing dates -- Success -- Just a smack at Auden -- The beautiful train -- Manchouli -- Reflection from Anita Loos -- The teasers -- Advice -- Anecdote from talk -- China -- Autumn at Nan-Yueh -- Let it go -- Thanks for a wedding present -- Sonnet -- Chinese ballad -- The birth of steel. Subjects; Literature Philosophy. Poetics. American poetry. Ants. Camping. Death. Old age. Steel industry and trade. Yorkshire. 1 Kg.…