I. A. Richards, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

I. A. Richards

English literary critic and rhetorician

Date of Birth: 26-Feb-1893

Place of Birth: Sandbach, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 07-Sep-1979

Profession: writer, literary critic, philosopher

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Ivor Armstrong Richards (26 February 1893, Sandbach – 7 September 1979 Cambridge), known as I.
A.
Richards, was an English educator, literary critic, and rhetorician.
His work contributed to the foundations of the New Criticism, a formalist movement in literary theory which emphasized the close reading of a literary text, especially poetry, in an effort to discover how a work of literature functions as a self-contained and self-referential æsthetic object. Richards' intellectual contributions to the establishment of the literary methodology of the New Criticism are presented in the books The Meaning of Meaning: A Study of the Influence of Language upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism (1923), by C.
K.
Ogden and I.
A.
Richards, Principles of Literary Criticism (1924), Practical Criticism (1929), and The Philosophy of Rhetoric (1936).