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Ivor Armstrong Richards CH (26 February 1893 – 7 September 1979), known as I. A. Richards, was an English educator, literary critic, poet, and rhetorician.
- Educator
- Magdalene College, Cambridge
- 20th century
- Dorothy Pilley Richards
British poet and scholar Ivor Armstrong Richards was born in Cheshire and educated at Cambridge University’s Magdalene College. His scholarship and research on how students read poetry helped shape the foundation of the New Criticism and its emphasis on close reading. With C.K. Ogden, Richards…
Apr 4, 2024 · I.A. Richards (born Feb. 26, 1893, Sandbach, Cheshire, Eng.—died Sept. 7, 1979, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) was an English critic, poet, and teacher who was highly influential in developing a new way of reading poetry that led to the New Criticism and that also influenced some forms of reader-response criticism.
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May 29, 2018 · I. A. Richards: (Ivor Armstrong Richards), 1893–1979, English literary critic. Richards was one of the founders of the school of interpretation known as the New Criticism, which stressed an awareness of textual and psychological nuance and ambiguity when studying literature.
Ivor Armstrong Richards CH (26 February 1893 – 7 September 1979 ), 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 ...
The works of Cambridge scholar I. A. Richards, especially his Practical Criticism, The Principles of Literary Criticism and The Meaning of Meaning, which offered what was claimed to be an empirical scientific approach, were important to the development of a New Critical methodology.
March 1989. I.A. Richards: critic as scientist. by. Bruce Bawer. A review of I. A. Richards: His Life and Work by John Paul Russo. or many of us with an interest in twentieth-century literary criticism, Ivor Armstrong Richards is at once a central and a problematic figure.
