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Ivor Armstrong Richards CH , known as I. A. Richards, was an English educator, literary critic, poet, and rhetorician. His work contributed to the foundations of the New Criticism, a formalist movement in literary theory which emphasized the close reading of a literary text, especially poetry, in an effort to discover how a work of literature functions as a self-contained and self-referential æsthetic object.

Richards' intellectual contributions to the establishment of the literary methodology of the New Criticism are presented in the books The Meaning of Meaning: A Study of the Influence of Language upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism , by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, Principles of Literary Criticism , Practical Criticism , and The Philosophy of Rhetoric . Wikipedia  

✵ 26. February 1893 – 7. September 1979
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“A book is a machine to think with, but it need not, therefore, usurp the functions either of the bellows or the locomotive.”

I. A. Richards

[Richards, I. A., Principles of Literary Criticism, 1924]
Principles of Literary Criticism

“An experience has to be formed, no doubt, before it is communicated, but it takes the form it does largely because it may have to be communicated.”

I. A. Richards

[Richards, I. A., Principles of Literary Criticism, 1924]
Principles of Literary Criticism

“The chief lesson to be learnt from it is the futility of all argumentation that precedes understanding. We cannot profitably attack any opinion until we have discovered what it expresses as well as what it states.”

I. A. Richards

[Richards, I. A., Principles of Literary Criticism, 1924]
Principles of Literary Criticism

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