ABSTRACT
September 1926, pp. 195–203
I. A. Richards (1893–1979), apostle of the new criticism, was an influential teacher at Cambridge in the twenties, where Empson (No. 43) was a pupil. His Principles of Literary Criticism (1924) and Practical Criticism (see No. 39) became key texts.
This essay is reprinted in A Dial Miscellany, ed. W. Wasserstrom (Syracuse, 1963).
