Centenary of a landmark in literary criticism
4 min readMar 11, 2024
The lasting reputation of a founder of modern literary criticism, I A Richards, was established a hundred years ago this year by his seminal work, The Principles of Literary Criticism, published in 1924.
Ivor Armstrong Richards (1893–1979), literary critic, aesthetician, poet, dramatist and educator, is an important figure because he changed the way imaginative literature, especially…