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I. A. Richards

1893 - 1979

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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 673,857 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. I. A. Richards is the 3,587th most popular writer (up from 3,595th in 2019), the 2,571st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,651st in 2019) and the 293rd most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, I. A. Richards ranks 3,587 out of 7,302. Before him are Yusuf Idris, Xanthus, Leonhard Frank, Gunter d'Alquen, Françoise d'Eaubonne, and Ishaq ibn Hunayn. After him are Aphthonius of Antioch, Paavo Haavikko, Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, Georgi Pulevski, António Ferreira, and Christopher Hampton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, I. A. Richards ranks 158. Before him are Luigi Carlo Borromeo, Georges Florovsky, Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam, Segismundo Casado, Karimeh Abbud, and T. H. Marshall. After him are Anthony Berkeley Cox, Walter Noddack, Donald Lippincott, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Cedric Hardwicke, and Roland Jacobi. Among people deceased in 1979, I. A. Richards ranks 144. Before him are Ted Cassidy, Immanuel Velikovsky, Amedeo Biavati, Zeppo Marx, Henri Anspach, and Walter Legge. After him are Henri Saint Cyr, Georgy Beriev, George Seaton, Tapio Rautavaara, Bruno Apitz, and Volodymyr Ivasyuk.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, I. A. Richards ranks 2,571 out of 8,785. Before him are George Shearing (1919), Banastre Tarleton (1754), Jonathan Edwards (1966), T. H. Marshall (1893), Bernie Marsden (1951), and Bryan Robson (1957). After him are Simon Phillips (1957), Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1869), Flora Finch (1867), Edmund Gwenn (1877), Patrick Gordon (1635), and Tom Finney (1922).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, I. A. Richards ranks 293. Before him are Henri Alleg (1921), Edwin Arnold (1832), Leslie Stephen (1832), Edith Durham (1863), George Gissing (1857), and Graham Hancock (1950). After him are Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893), Siegfried Sassoon (1886), William Robertson Smith (1846), Diana Mosley (1910), Gertrude Jekyll (1843), and Nancy Mitford (1904).

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