I.A. Richards

British critic and poet

Also known as: Ivor Armstrong Richards

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In full:: Ivor Armstrong Richards

Born:: Feb. 26, 1893, Sandbach, Cheshire, Eng.

Died:: Sept. 7, 1979, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (aged 86)

Notable Works:: “Practical Criticism”; “Principles of Literary Criticism”; “The Meaning of Meaning”

Movement / Style:: New Criticism

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. Richards was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and was a lecturer in English and moral sciences there from 1922 to 1929. In that period he wrote three of his most influential books: The Meaning of Meaning (1923; with C.K. Ogden), a pioneer work on semantics; and Principles of Literary Criticism (1924) and ...(100 of 376 words)

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