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Also Known As	Ivor Armstrong Richards
Born	February 26, 1893 • Cheshire • England
Died	September 7, 1979 (aged 86) • Cambridge • England
Notable Works	“Practical Criticism” • “Principles of Literary Criticism” • “The Meaning of Meaning”
Movement / Style	New Criticism
Subjects Of Study	literary criticism

William Empson

British critic and poet

F.R. Leavis

British critic

T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

English author

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

Portrait of poet Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

English author

Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold

British critic

Poet John Dryden

John Dryden

British author

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

English poet

Sir Philip Sidney

Sir Philip Sidney

English author and statesman

William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

William Congreve

English dramatist

Algernon Charles Swinburne, watercolour by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1862; in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

English poet

Chesterton, G.K.

G.K. Chesterton

British author

Robert Graves

British writer

Leigh Hunt, detail of a watercolour and gouache on ivory by Margaret Gillies, 1838–46; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Leigh Hunt

British author

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Sir Herbert Read.

Sir Herbert Read

British art critic

title page of George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie

George Puttenham

English writer

William Ernest Henley

William Ernest Henley

British writer

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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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