Contents Preface V 1. New Bearings in Modern Criticism 1 2. The Background of I.A.Richards?s Literary Criticism 10 3. Richards on the Two Uses of Language 18 4. Richards?s Definition of a Poem 33 5. Richards?s Theory of Value as Applied to Poetry 49 6. Poetry as Pseudo-statement: Good Poetry and Bad Poetry 66 7. Problem of Poetry and Beliefs 84 8. Richards?s Theory of Metaphor 106 9. Conception of Poetry in Richards?s Later Writings 124 10. In Defence of I.A.Richards 143 11. I.A.Richards and New Criticism 153 Bibliography 172