Just been reading Empson doing a Prynne-line forensic examination of the use of a single word - 'sense' -in the Prelude. I really like it, he's no nonsense and quite harsh on the writer, but the depth he goes into is really impressive. I suppose he must have been a big influence on Prynne's essays on Wordsworth, Coleridge and Keats where he breaks down every single word of a poem, but he seems a lot more judgemental than Prynne. Would be terrifying for the poet, I would imagine, to have him write an essay on you!