ABSTRACT
1929, pp. 80–90
Richards called this celebrated volume ‘A piece of field-work in comparative ideology’, publishing, with commentary, the responses—called protocols—of his students to little-known and anonymous poems that were placed before them. Richards’s main thesis was the need for close, objective 153reading, and the Hopkins poem ‘Spring and Fall’ (printed in a faulty version) evoked a response which was as revealing, from this point of view, as any in the book.
