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I. A. Richards

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English literary critic and rhetorician (1893-1979)

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Ivor Armstrong Richards CH, known as I. A. Richards, was an English educator, literary critic, poet, and rhetorician.

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1978Benjamin Franklin Medal
1970Emerson-Thoreau Medal
1964Order of the Companions of Honour
Russell Loines Award for Poetry

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Ivor Armstrong Richards CH, known as I. A. Richards, was an English educator, literary critic, poet, and rhetorician. His work contributed to the foundations of 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.

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Lived 1893 to 1979 · aged 86
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