The book is an in-depth analysis of Ivor Armstrong Richards' critical theorizings and an assessment of his overall importance as a literacy theorist and practical critic. The assumption underlying this project is that Richards' is a seminal mind, inciteful and original, and that he is a pioneer and trail blazer among the most celebrated English and American Critics except perhaps T.S. Eliot. Endowed as he is with the strength and candour of an iconoclast, he made ...
