I. A. Richards (Ivor Armstrong Richards, 26 February 1893 – 7 September 1979) was an influential English literary critic and rhetorician.He was educated at Clifton College and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where his love of English was nurtured by the scholar 'Cabby' Spence. His books, especially The Meaning of Meaning, Principles of Literary Criticism, Practical Criticism, and The Philosophy of Rhetoric, proved to be founding influences for the New Criticism.
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