LITERARY CRITICISM:FREE NOTES

IVOR ARMSTRONG RICHARDS Richards 1. The Foundations of Aesthetics 2. The Meaning of Meaning: A Study of ...

When a statement is made for the sake of the effects in emotion and attitude, it is called the emotive use of language.  The word “e...

            Thomas Love Peacock denounced poets and Poetry in his notorious booklet The Four Ages of Poetry.   He wrote that poets were on...

Poetic communication, for Richards, is an implied, not vocal, dialogue between the poet and the reader.  He says, "The arts are the...

            I.A. Richards is the most influential literary theorist of the twentieth century.  He is the pioneer of what has come to...

I.          I.S. Richards, the famous Cambridge Scholar, in his 'Principles of Literary Criticism' introduc...