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Also Known As	Ivor Armstrong Richards
Born	February 26, 1893 • Cheshire • England
Died	September 7, 1979 (aged 86) • Cambridge • England
Notable Works	“Practical Criticism” • “Principles of Literary Criticism” • “The Meaning of Meaning”
Movement / Style	New Criticism
Subjects Of Study	literary criticism

Black and white photograph of William Empson working at the BBC as a news editor for the Eastern Service on August 10, 1946.

William Empson

British critic and poet

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F.R. Leavis

British critic

T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study.

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.

Samuel Johnson

English author

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

Portrait of poet Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

English author

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

English poet

Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold

British critic

Poet John Dryden

John Dryden

British author

Sir Philip Sidney

Sir Philip Sidney

English author and statesman

C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis

Irish-born author and scholar

William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

William Congreve

English dramatist

Algernon Charles Swinburne, watercolour by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1862; in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

English poet

Portrait of Gilbert Keith Chesterton wearing glasses and a suit, with a mustache and tousled hair, looking directly at the camera.

G.K. Chesterton

British author

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Robert Graves

British writer

Leigh Hunt, detail of a watercolour and gouache on ivory by Margaret Gillies, 1838–46; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Leigh Hunt

British author

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Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Sir Herbert Read.

Sir Herbert Read

British art critic

title page of George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie

George Puttenham

English writer

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry