Abstract

It is presently a commonplace among scholars and teachers of literature that the New Criticism is, and has been for decades now, both dead and alive. As a set of techniques for reading developed from the 1920s through the early 1950s by I. A. Richards, William Empson, T. S. Eliot, Yvor Winters, F. R. Leavis, Cleanth Brooks, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, R. P. Blackmur, and others, and principally disseminated by Brooks and Warren, it continues to exercise an enormous influence on teachers of literature in the United States and

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