List of Illustrations; Preface; Part 1: The Preparation of a Critic; 1. Boyhood and Clifton 2. Cambridge 3. Moral Science and Cambridge Humanism 4. G. E. Moore: "The Other Theory of Art" 5. Beauty and Truth; Part 2: The Theory and Method of Criticism; 6. Agenda in the 1920s 7. Semantics 8. Science, Poetry, and Society 9. The Sherrington Model 10. The Poet in Ideal Perfection 11. How a Poem Works, I: The Parts 12. How a Poem Works, II: Reference and Metaphor 13. How a Poem Works III: The Whole 14. The Pathology of Interpretation 15. Belief and Sincerity 16. Coleridge and the Whole Soul in Activity; Part 3: The Later Career: Education and Poetry; 17: Basic English: The Years in China 18. Experiment in America 19. The Classical Tradition 20. Influence: Empson; Leavis and Scrutiny; American New Criticism 21. Poems and Plays: The Third Career 22. Mysterious Mountains 23. Beyond 24. Final Years: A Portrait of I. A. Richards; Appendix: Additional Entries to John Paul Russo, "A Bibliography of … I. A. Richards"; Abbreviations; Notes; Index
Biography
John Paul Russo
