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WILLIAM EMPSON increasingly seems to me the most useful literary critic of the twentieth century. I owe a lot more to the great Canadian magus Northrop Frye, whose writings formed me for twenty years, from 1947 to 1967, when I reacted against them after a night of bad dreams concerning the figure that Ezekiel and William Blake called the Covering Cherub: Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.