Principles of literary criticism
I. A. (Ivor Armstrong) Richards
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1. Front matter2. PREFACE3. CHAPTER I The Chaos of Critical Theories4. CHAPTER II The Phantom Æsthetic State5. CHAPTER III The Language of Criticism6. CHAPTER IV Communication and the Artist7. CHAPTER V The Critics’ Concern with Value8. CHAPTER VI Value as an Ultimate Idea9. CHAPTER VII A Psychological Theory of Value10. CHAPTER VIII Art and Morals11. CHAPTER IX Actual and Possible Misapprehensions12. CHAPTER X Poetry for Poetry’s Sake13. CHAPTER XI A Sketch for a Psychology14. CHAPTER XII Pleasure15. CHAPTER XIII Emotion and the Cœnesthesia16. CHAPTER XIV Memory17. CHAPTER XV Attitudes18. CHAPTER XVI The Analysis of a Poem19. CHAPTER XVII Rhythm and Metre20. CHAPTER XVIII On Looking at a Picture21. CHAPTER XIX Sculpture and the Construction of Form22. CHAPTER XX The Impasse of Musical Theory23. CHAPTER XXI A Theory of Communication24. CHAPTER XXII The Availability of the Poet’s Experience25. CHAPTER XXIII Tolstoy’s Infection Theory26. CHAPTER XXIV The Normality of the Artist27. CHAPTER XXV Badness in Poetry28. CHAPTER XXVI Judgment and Divergent Readings29. CHAPTER XXVII Levels of Response and the Width of Appeal30. CHAPTER XXVIII The Allusiveness of Modern Poetry31. CHAPTER XXIX Permanence as a Criterion32. CHAPTER XXX The Definition of a Poem33. CHAPTER XXXI Art, Play, and Civilisation34. CHAPTER XXXII The Imagination35. CHAPTER XXXIII Truth and Revelation Theories36. CHAPTER XXXIV The Two Uses of Language37. CHAPTER XXXV Poetry and Beliefs38. APPENDIX A. On Value39. APPENDIX B. THE POETRY OF T. S. ELIOT40. NOTES.