Ivor Armstrong Richards was known as I. A. Richards. He was great modern critic. T. S. Eliot and I. A. Richards are considered to be the pioneer in the field of new criticism. His views are different from other critics. I. A. Richards is a pioneer figure of new criticism. His path breaking works are, # The meaning of meaning - 1923 # The principle of Literary criticism - 1924 # The practice criticism - 1929 He also talk about three main objectives to write the practical criticism. 1. To introduce a new kind of documentation 2. To provide new technique 3. To prepare the way for Educational methods "His practical approach gave new path to Literary criticism" In his criticism of poetry, he gave a lot of importance to 'words' . He believed that, "poet writes to communicate and language is the means to that communication" So, study of 'words' is more important if you