THE FOUR KINDS OF MEANING—I A RICHARDS
A revised version, (11th Feb 2021).
S.Sreekumar
The following is an attempt to
analyze The Four Kinds of Meaning (Practical Criticism, Part
III, Chapter I).
This blog is more of a compilation rather
than an original critical commentary. The sole intention here is to help the
students/research scholars with a quick overview of Richards.
Introduction—background
Richards is a unique figure in English
literary criticism because of the originality of his ideas. Moreover, like
Coleridge, Richards was also interested in philosophy. His works in literary criticism helped to lay the
practical foundations and methodology of New Criticism. The close
reading of texts is the strategy of New Criticism. It got its first extensive
practitioner in Richards.
