Practical criticism

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Practical Criticism, as conceived by Richards, pays attention to very small units of language in short lyric poems in a way that leads directly to the New Critics' emphasis on 'the poem in itself', and their associated rejection of the analysis of any kind of historical or political context.

subjects: History and criticism,  Criticism,  Poetry,  Literature,  Textual Criticism,  Critique,  Histoire et critique,  Poésie,  Poetry, history and criticism,  LITERARY CRITICISM,  General,  Literaturkritik