ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Practical criticism is, like the formal study of English literature itself, a relatively young discipline. It began in the 1920s with a series of experiments by the Cambridge critic I.A. Richards.

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: -Richards in Principles of Literary Criticism (1924) developed a closely reasoned theory of the mind’s response to rhythm and metre. His theory is organic and contextual; the sound effects of prosody have little psychologic effect by themselves.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: –died Sept. 7, 1979, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire), English critic, poet, and teacher who was highly influential in developing a new way of reading poetry that led to the New Criticism and that also influenced some forms of reader-response criticism.