Principles of literary criticism / I.A. Richards.

Originally published: London : Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1924.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chaos of critical theories -- Phantom aesthetic state -- Language of criticism -- Communication and the artist -- Critics' concern with value -- Value as an ultimate idea -- Psychological theory of value -- Art and morals -- Actual and possible misapprehensions -- Poetry for poetry's sake -- Sketch for a psychology -- Pleasure -- Emotion and the coenesthesia -- Memory -- Attitudes -- Analysis of a poem -- Rhythm and metre -- On looking at a picture -- Sculpture and the construction of form -- Impasse of musical theory -- Theory of communication -- Availability of the poet's experience -- Tolstoy's infection theory -- Normality of the artist -- Badness in poetry -- Judgment and divergent readings -- Levels of response and the width of appeal -- Allusiveness of modern poetry -- Permanence as a criterion -- Definition of a poem -- Art, play, and civilisation -- Imagination -- Truth and revelation theories -- Two uses of language -- Poetry and beliefs.