Richards views on Allusiveness of Modern Poet...

Richards views on Allusiveness of Modern Poetry and Levels of Response and Width of Appeal

Author Name : Rahul Rathee

Ivor Armstrong Richards was a scholar of semantics, and along with the philosopher, writer and editor Charles K.Ogden
formulated Basic English. The psychoanalytic school of criticism aspires to formulate criticism further scientific by an
enlarged application of psychological knowledge to its problems. Richards is regarded as the most important psychological
critic who has studied poetry methodically. The Meaning of Meaning (1923), written in collaboration with Ogden, is an
important contribution to linguistics. Principles of Literary Criticism (1924) was followed by Science and Poetry (1926),
Practical Criticism (1929) and Coleridge on Imagination (1934). Richards rejected positivist criticism, which considers that
human achievements have some bearings on the psychology of an individual, the period in which he lives and the race to
which he belongs. Richards is of the view that the literary text should be studied independent of these three factors. He was
fascinated by the developments in psychology and wanted to evaluate art in terms of the state of mind induced by it. He
promoted a psychological theory of value, which has now become outdated due to later researches in psychology.