I. A. Richards · CatalogI. A. RichardsI. A. Richards; IA Richards; I.A. Richards; I A Richards; IARichards; Ivor Armstrong RichardsI. A. Richards · CatalogI. A. Richards (1893-1979) was an English literary critic, teacher and rhetorician at Cambridge and later Harvard, whose work helped lay the foundations of the New Criticism.
I. A. Richards (1893-1979) was an English literary critic, teacher and rhetorician at Cambridge and later Harvard, whose work helped lay the foundations of the New Criticism.
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“There are two totally distinct uses of language.”
Principles of Literary Criticism is I. A. Richards's attempt to give criticism a systematic foundation. Richards, a young Cambridge lecturer trained in philosophy rather than literature, first published it in London in 1924 in the International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method; the stored text is a 1928 New York printing.
Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgment is I. A. Richards's account of an experiment in reading, published in London in 1929 as a companion to his Principles of Literary Criticism. For some years at Cambridge, Richards handed out printed sheets of poems, ranging in his words from a poem by Shakespeare to a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, without the authors' names.