No treatment of modern criticism is possible without discussing I.A. Richards, since in the most literal sense his influence combined with that of T.S. Eliot and F.R. Leavis served to create it. As one of seminal thinkers paving the way for the development of ‘New Criticism,’ Richards made a systematic attempt to formulate a theory of poetry in consonance with the demands of modern scientific thought. The present book stems from the need to offer an ...
