Richards on Rhetoric: I.A. Richards
Subtitle: Selected Essays (1929-1974) (1929-1974)
Contributors: Ann E. Berthoff (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: December 6, 1990
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780195069501
First sentence: Richards reclaimed practical criticism-both idea and phrase-from Coleridge, using it as the title for his best-known book, which was at once a study of literary form and an enormously influential account of how people read: Practical Criticism became a founding charter of the New Criticism.