Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1 A Toast -- 2 The Ambiguity of William Empson -- 3 Extracts from Unpublished Memoirs -- 4 Mr William Empson in Japan -- 5 A is B at 8,000 feet -- 6 Empson Agonistes -- 7 William Empson -- 8 The Man within the Name: William Empson as Poet, Critic, and Friend -- 9 An Eighth Type of Ambiguity -- 10 Semantic Frontiersman -- 11 All or Nothing: A theme in John Donne -- 12 Reflections on Johnson's Life of Milton -- 13 New Signatures in Retrospect.