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I. A. Richards

1893 - 1979

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Ivor Armstrong Richards CH (26 February 1893 – 7 September 1979), 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. Richards' intellectual contributions to the establishment of the literary methodology of New Criticism are presented in the books The Meaning of Meaning: A Study of the Influence of Language upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism (1923), by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, Principles of Literary Criticism (1924), Practical Criticism (1929), and The Philosophy of Rhetoric (1936). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. I. A. Richards is the 4,354th most popular writer (down from 3,587th in 2019), the 3,440th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,572nd in 2019) and the 380th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, I. A. Richards ranks 4,354 out of 7,302. Before him are Gordon R. Dickson, Geo Milev, Ciro Alegría, Anatoly Kuznetsov, Vasily Trediakovsky, and Betty Mahmoody. After him are Maurice Genevoix, Steen Steensen Blicher, Sigbjørn Obstfelder, Louise Penny, Gabriello Chiabrera, and Cora Sandel.

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Among people born in 1893, I. A. Richards ranks 199. Before him are Ernst Grünfeld, Marcel Minnaert, Norman Manley, Christopher Kelk Ingold, Marguerite Broquedis, and Chang Taek-sang. After him are Joseph Alzin, Konstantin Muraviev, Alexander Ostrowski, Kurt Martti Wallenius, Mykola Khvylovy, and Aleksei Losev. Among people deceased in 1979, I. A. Richards ranks 179. Before him are Leandro Remondini, Erich Rademacher, Gérard Blitz, István Bibó, Yahya Petra of Kelantan, and Anatoly Kuznetsov. After him are Ismail Nasiruddin of Terengganu, Pyotr Gavrilov, Juan Aguilera, Walther Müller, Paul Meurisse, and Louis Paul Boon.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, I. A. Richards ranks 3,441 out of 8,785. Before him are Patrick Doyle (1953), Drew McIntyre (1985), Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester (1724), Kathy Burke (1964), George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (1697), and James Arthur (1988). After him are George Abbot (1562), Ben Whishaw (1980), Nicholas Galitzine (1994), Johnny Claes (1916), Ronald Rawson (1892), and Marina Sirtis (1955).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, I. A. Richards ranks 380. Before him are Graham Swift (1949), Pamela Colman Smith (1878), David Almond (1951), Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844), Walter Savage Landor (1775), and John Lyly (1554). After him are Robert Greene (1558), Minette Walters (1949), Rosemary Sutcliff (1920), Anita Brookner (1928), Grace Elliott (1754), and Michael Morpurgo (1943).

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