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How to Read Poetry
Loving, Pieree | December 11, 1929 issue

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This article focuses on the book "Practical Criticism," by I.A. Richards. In this book, Richards tried the experiment of issuing printed sheets of poems, ranging in character from a poem by Shakespeare to one by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, to students who were invited to comment freely on them. The authorship of the poems was not revealed. After a week the comments were gathered in by the lecturer and made the theme of his discourse. The experiments are of course interesting, but not at all conclusive. They lead, however, to Richards's own analysis in the latter half of the book of such matters as figurative language, sense and feeling, stock responses, sentimentality, and inhibition

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PRACTICAL Criticism (Book); RICHARDS, I. A.; AUTHORSHIP; SENTIMENTALISM; LECTURERS; LECTURES & lecturing
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