SOURCE: Empson, William. “The Phoenix and the Turtle.” Essays in Criticism 16, no. 2 (April 1966): 147-53.
In the following essay, Empson comments on the puzzling central theme of “married chastity” in The Phoenix and Turtle, and examines the poem's biographical contexts and mystical conclusion.
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