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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 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

Among writers, I. A. Richards ranks 3,608 out of 5,755Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, I. A. Richards ranks 155Before 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 139Before 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.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, I. A. Richards ranks 2,658 out of 7,765Before 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).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, I. A. Richards ranks 307Before 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).