BY

I. A. RICHARDS

FELLOW OF
MAGDALENE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

NEW YORK

HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY

LONDON: KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO. LTD.

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY
LUND HUMPHRIES
LONDON * BRADFORD

CONTENTS

I.[THE CHAOS OF CRITICAL THEORIES]
II.[THE PHANTOM ÆSTHETIC STATE]
III.[THE LANGUAGE OF CRITICISM]
IV.[COMMUNICATION AND THE ARTIST]
V.[THE CRITICS’ CONCERN WITH VALUE]
VI.[VALUE AS AN ULTIMATE IDEA]
VII.[A PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY OF VALUE]
VIII.[ART AND MORALS]
IX.[ACTUAL AND POSSIBLE MISAPPREHENSIONS]
X.[POETRY FOR POETRY’S SAKE]
XI.[A SKETCH FOR A PSYCHOLOGY]
XII.[PLEASURE]
XIII.[EMOTION AND THE CŒNESTHESIA]
XIV.[MEMORY]
XV.[ATTITUDES]
XVI.[THE ANALYSIS OF A POEM]
XVII.[RHYTHM AND METRE]
XVIII.[ON LOOKING AT A PICTURE]
XIX.[SCULPTURE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF FORM]
XX.[THE IMPASSE OF MUSICAL THEORY]
XXI.[A THEORY OF COMMUNICATION]
XXII.[THE AVAILABILITY OF THE POET’S EXPERIENCE]
XXIII.[TOLSTOY’S INFECTION THEORY]
XXIV.[THE NORMALITY OF THE ARTIST]
XXV.[BADNESS IN POETRY]
XXVI.[JUDGMENT AND DIVERGENT READINGS]
XXVII.[LEVELS OF RESPONSE AND THE WIDTH OF APPEAL]
XXVIII.[THE ALLUSIVENESS OF MODERN POETRY]
XXIX.[PERMANENCE AS A CRITERION]
XXX.[THE DEFINITION OF A POEM]
XXXI.[ART, PLAY, AND CIVILISATION]
XXXII.[THE IMAGINATION]
XXXIII.[TRUTH AND REVELATION THEORIES]
XXXIV.[THE TWO USES OF LANGUAGE]
XXXV.[POETRY AND BELIEFS]
[APPENDIX A ON VALUE]
[APPENDIX B ON MR. ELIOT’S POETRY]