ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Richards’ practical critique is based on the workings of the mind as a component of the neurological system and impulses. Richards describes a poet as someone who can organise his experiences and link his many impulses into “a single ordered response” in his book Principles of Literary Criticism (245).

Detailed explanation-2: -15). If we think of I.A. Richards at all now, it is to think of him as the founder of an intrinsic technique of reading literature now known as ‘practical criticism’, a technique which concentrates upon ‘the words on the page’ and which disregards the text’s social and historical context.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -In Principles Richards argues that accounts of values and of communication must form the basis for a theory of criticism, and he goes on to discuss the poet as a communicator.