Four Kinds of Meaning by I A Richards
Four Kinds of Meaning by I. A. Richards I. A. Richards Ivor Armstrong Richards, popularly known as I. A. Richards (1893 – 1979), was a literary critic, linguist, and philosopher. He had no formal training in literature. His subject of study at Cambridge was philosophy. As a visiting professor, Richards taught Basic English and Poetry at Tsinghua University, Beijing. Later, he became the director of the Orthological Institute of China. Richards is a unique figure in English literary criticism because of the originality of his ideas. Moreover, like Coleridge, Richards was also interested in philosophy. His works in literary criticism helped to lay the practical foundations and methodology of New Criticism. The close reading of texts is the strategy of New Criticism. It got its first extensive practitioner in Richards. Introduction At the outset, Richards points out some of the difficulties in Part II (of Practical Criticism ) because of documentation. The documentation was like navi