Title: Practical criticism
Subtitle: a study of literary judgment
First published: 1952
Description: Practical Criticism, as conceived by Richards, pays attention to very small units of language in short lyric poems in a way that leads directly to the New Critics' emphasis on 'the poem in itself', and their associated rejection of the analysis of any kind of historical or political context.
Subjects: History and criticism, Criticism, Poetry, Literature, Textual Criticism, Critique, Histoire et critique, Poésie, Poetry, history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM, General, Literaturkritik
LC classification: PN 1031 R48 1929