1893 - 1979
Ivor Armstrong Richards CH (26 February 1893 – 7 September 1979), known as I. A. Richards, was an English educator, literary critic, poet, and rhetorician. His work contributed to the foundations of New Criticism, a formalist movement in literary theory which emphasized the close reading of a literary text, especially poetry, in an effort to discover how a work of literature functions as a self-contained and self-referential æsthetic object. Richards' intellectual contributions to the establishment of the literary methodology of New Criticism are presented in the books The Meaning of Meaning: A Study of the Influence of Language upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism (1923), by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of I. A. Richards has received more than 625,708 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). I. A. Richards is the 3,608th most popular writer (up from 4,419th in 2019), the 2,658th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,399th in 2019) and the 307th most popular British Writer.
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Among writers, I. A. Richards ranks 3,608 out of 5,755. Before him are Charles Brockden Brown, Otfrid of Weissenburg, Lola Anglada, John Henry Mackay, Þorbjörn Hornklofi, and Driss Chraïbi. After him are Ruth Westheimer, Claude Favre de Vaugelas, Eiko Kadono, Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, Jan Wolkers, and Yuri Rytkheu.
1771 - 1810
HPI: 49.80
Rank: 3,602
790 - 875
HPI: 49.80
Rank: 3,603
1892 - 1984
HPI: 49.80
Rank: 3,604
1864 - 1933
HPI: 49.80
Rank: 3,605
900 - 1000
HPI: 49.80
Rank: 3,606
1926 - 2007
HPI: 49.79
Rank: 3,607
1893 - 1979
HPI: 49.79
Rank: 3,608
1928 - Present
HPI: 49.79
Rank: 3,609
1585 - 1650
HPI: 49.79
Rank: 3,610
1935 - Present
HPI: 49.78
Rank: 3,611
1856 - 1912
HPI: 49.78
Rank: 3,612
1925 - 2007
HPI: 49.78
Rank: 3,613
1930 - 2008
HPI: 49.78
Rank: 3,614
Among people born in 1893, I. A. Richards ranks 155. Before him are J. G. Strijdom, Roland Jacobi, Ernst Grünfeld, Luigi Carlo Borromeo, Aleksandr Gauk, and Fay Bainter. After him are Louise Weiss, Georg Åberg, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Gummo Marx, Aarre Merikanto, and Eugen Schüfftan. Among people deceased in 1979, I. A. Richards ranks 139. Before him are Issa Pliyev, Amedeo Nazzari, Grant Green, István Örkény, Lothar Wolleh, and Georgy Beriev. After him are Tapio Rautavaara, Ted Cassidy, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Minnie Riperton, Jim Hutton, and Walter Legge.
1893 - 1958
HPI: 50.18
Rank: 149
1893 - 1951
HPI: 50.14
Rank: 150
1893 - 1962
HPI: 50.12
Rank: 151
1893 - 1975
HPI: 50.07
Rank: 152
1893 - 1963
HPI: 49.88
Rank: 153
1893 - 1968
HPI: 49.81
Rank: 154
1893 - 1979
HPI: 49.79
Rank: 155
1893 - 1983
HPI: 49.74
Rank: 156
1893 - 1946
HPI: 49.73
Rank: 157
1893 - 1979
HPI: 49.72
Rank: 158
1893 - 1977
HPI: 49.58
Rank: 159
1893 - 1958
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 160
1893 - 1977
HPI: 49.49
Rank: 161
1903 - 1979
HPI: 50.34
Rank: 133
1907 - 1979
HPI: 50.28
Rank: 134
1935 - 1979
HPI: 50.27
Rank: 135
1912 - 1979
HPI: 50.23
Rank: 136
1930 - 1979
HPI: 49.86
Rank: 137
1903 - 1979
HPI: 49.81
Rank: 138
1893 - 1979
HPI: 49.79
Rank: 139
1915 - 1979
HPI: 49.76
Rank: 140
1932 - 1979
HPI: 49.74
Rank: 141
1893 - 1979
HPI: 49.72
Rank: 142
1947 - 1979
HPI: 49.63
Rank: 143
1934 - 1979
HPI: 49.49
Rank: 144
1906 - 1979
HPI: 49.43
Rank: 145
Among people born in United Kingdom, I. A. Richards ranks 2,658 out of 7,765. Before him are Minnie Driver (1970), Charles Warren (1840), John Turner (1929), Richard Christopher Carrington (1826), John Henry Mackay (1864), and Ian Stewart (1945). After him are Humphrey Gilbert (1539), Barry Morse (1918), Mary Sidney (1561), Harry Gregson-Williams (1961), Trafford Leigh-Mallory (1892), and William Foulke (1874).
1970 - Present
HPI: 49.82
Rank: 2,652
1840 - 1927
HPI: 49.81
Rank: 2,653
1929 - 2020
HPI: 49.81
Rank: 2,654
1826 - 1875
HPI: 49.80
Rank: 2,655
1864 - 1933
HPI: 49.80
Rank: 2,656
1945 - Present
HPI: 49.79
Rank: 2,657
1893 - 1979
HPI: 49.79
Rank: 2,658
1539 - 1583
HPI: 49.78
Rank: 2,659
1918 - 2008
HPI: 49.77
Rank: 2,660
1561 - 1621
HPI: 49.76
Rank: 2,661
1961 - Present
HPI: 49.76
Rank: 2,662
1892 - 1944
HPI: 49.75
Rank: 2,663
1874 - 1916
HPI: 49.75
Rank: 2,664
Among writers born in United Kingdom, I. A. Richards ranks 307. Before him are Gertrude Jekyll (1843), Frances Burney (1752), Andrew Lang (1844), Anita Brookner (1928), Iain Banks (1954), and John Henry Mackay (1864). After him are Mary Sidney (1561), Radclyffe Hall (1880), Hilary Mantel (1952), Georgette Heyer (1902), Robert Fisk (1946), and Gillian Rubinstein (1942).
1843 - 1932
HPI: 50.02
Rank: 301
1752 - 1840
HPI: 49.94
Rank: 302
1844 - 1912
HPI: 49.94
Rank: 303
1928 - 2016
HPI: 49.89
Rank: 304
1954 - 2013
HPI: 49.87
Rank: 305
1864 - 1933
HPI: 49.80
Rank: 306
1893 - 1979
HPI: 49.79
Rank: 307
1561 - 1621
HPI: 49.76
Rank: 308
1880 - 1943
HPI: 49.74
Rank: 309
1952 - Present
HPI: 49.67
Rank: 310
1902 - 1974
HPI: 49.61
Rank: 311
1946 - 2020
HPI: 49.58
Rank: 312
1942 - Present
HPI: 49.57
Rank: 313