A conversation between
A. Alvarez and Christopher Logue
Each speaker introduces a poem illustrating those qualities in Empson's work which he most admires. Mr. Alvarez quotes To an Old Lady in illustration of Empson's ' reverence for style,* and Mr. Logue quotes two stanzas from the long poem Autumn on Nan-Yueh to indicate Empson's * political intelligence,' which he believes to be the more important quality.
