Principles of literary criticism / by I. A. Richards

Includes appendix and index

The chaos of critical theories The phantom aesthetic state The language of criticism Communication and the artist The critics' concern with value Value as an ultimate idea A psychological theory of value Art and morals Actual and possible misapprehensions Poetry for poetry's sake A sketch for a psychology Pleasure Emotion and the coenesthesia Memory Attitudes The analysis of a poem Rhythm and metre On looking at a picture Sculpture and the construction of form The Impasse of musical theory A theory of communication The availability of the poet's experience Tolstoy's infection theory The normality of the artist Badness in poetry Judgement and divergent readings Levels of response and the width of appeal The allusiveness of modern poetry Permanence as a criterion The definition of a poem Art, Play, and Civilization The imagination Truth and revelation theories The two uses of language Poetry and beliefs