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