Peripheral Visions
Jamie Limond, MAP Magazine
June 2021
In the introduction to Seven Types of Ambiguity, William Empson makes a rare reference to visual art. Talking about Constable’s working oil-sketches, he implies that it’s in these studies rather than the painter’s finished works that we find the room for ‘poetry’ (or ‘ambiguity’, which for Empson was pretty much the same thing). […]