I. A. Richards

Ivor Armstrong Richards(I.A. Richards) was born Feb. 26, 1893, Sandbach, Cheshire, Eng. and died Sept. 7, 1979, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Richards was a English critic, poet, and teacher. He was highly influential in developing a new way of reading poetry that led to the New Criticism. This also influenced some forms of reader-response criticism.