Four Kinds of Meaning by I.A Richards
Four Kinds of Meaning I.A. Richards Richards – 20th century New Critic In his Principles of Literary Criticism, Richards gave criticism a scientific precision and objectivity contradictory to a chaos of critical theories. Differentiated-referential & emotive language. Communication –emotive (function of the author). Comprehension-referential-(function of the reader). Practical Criticism-Four Kinds of Meaning Difficulties of documentation-labyrinth. Analysis of anonymous poems-hundred verdicts from a hundred readers. Difficulties-interdependent on each other like a cluster of monkeys. The original difficulty of reading-the problem of making out the meaning. For a Proper understanding of a poem, the following questions have to be answered: 👉👉👉What is a meaning? ...