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Practical criticism

a study of literary judgment

by I. A. Richards

1929 386 pages eng

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.

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