I.A. Richards: A Critic

Life and Works-   

Ivor Armstrong Richards Was born in 1893 and was educated at Clifton and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where in 1912 he was also appointed a professor of English Literature. Later he became one of the Pioneers of New Criticism.

His works include-

1. The Foundations of Aesthetics (1922), Co-authored with C. K. Ogden and James Wood.

 2. The Principles of Literary Criticism (London, 1924; New York, 1925)   

3. Science and Poetry (London,   1926).  

4. Practical Criticism (1929).  

5. Coleridge on Imagination (London, 1934; New York, 1935).

 6. Speculative Instruments (London, 1955).

 7. 'So Much Nearer: Essays toward a World English (New York, 1960, 1968), includes the important essay, "The Future of Poetry."