{"product_id":"the-real-thing-strange-christopher-norris-9781919269870","title":"The Real Thing Strange","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs poet and critic Empson did more than anyone to re-shape the practice of literary interpretation with his extraordinary powers of insight, verbal analysis, and deeply searching reflective commentary. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristopher Norris has been reading, teaching, and writing about Empson for the past five decades and here returns to one further engagement in a sequence of poems that range over many aspects of its subject's richly creative, intellectually adventurous, and - in the best sense - eccentric career. That sense will be brought into sharper focus as the reader is introduced, through these formally structured rhyming and metrical verses, to a creative-critical mind unlike any other in its complex inter-connectedness and capacity for yoking together diverse areas of thought and experience in new, revelatory ways. That Norris's poetry owes a great deal to Empson in formal, thematic and intellectual terms will be evident to anyone who has read \u003cem\u003eSeven Types\u003c\/em\u003e or the slim but sharply distinctive verse output of his rather short-lived poetic career. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany commentators have started out by declaring Empson undoubtedly a genius yet ended up by confessing their inability to say just where - in which of his manifold gifts - that genius principally lies. With his poems Norris hopes to make good the claim through a different, generically more flexible and creative-exploratory line of approach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Norris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1919269878\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781919269870\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambria Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d","brand":"Christopher Norris","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49097294905599,"sku":"9781919269870","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-real-thing-strange-christopher-norris-9781919269870","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}