Abstract
There is little direct connection between the style and construction of William Empson’s“clotted” poetry and the rich—sometimes even opulent—poetry of T.S. Eliot. However, the relationship between these two writers is distinct. F.R. Leavis in his New Bearings in English Poetry brought out the nature of this connection very well: The significant kind of relations to…(Eliot)…is
illustrated by the half-a-dozen remarkable poems that Mr. William Empson contributed to Cambridge Poetry 1929. Mr. Empson’s poetry is quite unlike Mr. Eliot’s,but without the creative stir and the re-orientation produced by Mr. Eliot it would not have been written