I. A. Richards
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English literary critic and rhetorician (1893–1979)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1893
- Died
- 1980
- Works
- 164
Top works
- German through pictures
- Deutsch AAC Language System I/II
- Practical criticism
- Poetic process and literary annalysis
- Il russo per immagini
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- Total plays
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Ivor Armstrong Richards (26 February 1893 – 7 September 1979) was an influential English literary critic and rhetorician. He was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge where his love of English was nurtured by the scholar 'Cabby' Spence. His books, especially The Meaning of Meaning, Principles of Literary Criticism, Practical Criticism, and The Philosophy of Rhetoric, proved to be founding influences for the New Criticism. The concept of 'practical criticism' led in time to the practices of cl
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ivor
- Family name
- Richards
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Sandbach
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Educated at
- Magdalene College
- Employer
- Harvard University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral student
- M. H. Abrams
- Image
- IAR alps c1930.png
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- date of birth
- 1893-02-26
- date of death
- 1979-09-07
- name in native language
- Ivor Armstrong Richards
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