Principles of literary criticism / I.A. Richards.

Originally published: London : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1924.

1- The chaos of critical theories;
2- The Phantom Aesthetic State;
3- The language of criticism;
4- Communication and the artist;
5- The critic's concern with value;
6- Value as an ultimate idea;
7- A psychological theory of value;
8- Art and morals;
9- Actual and possible misapprehensions;
10- Poetry fore poetry's sake;
11- A sketch for a psychology;
12- Pleasure;
13- Emotion and the coenesthesia;
14- Memory;
15-Attitudes;
16- The analysis of a poem;
17- Rhythm and meter;
18- On looking at the picture;
19- Sculpture and the construction of form;
20- The impasse of musical theory;
21- The theory of communication;
22- The availability of the poet's experience;
23-Tolstoy's infection theory;
24- The normality of the artist;
25- Badness in poetry;
26- Judgement and divergent reading;
27- Levels of response and the width of appeal;
28- The allusiveness of modern poetry;
29- Permanence as a criterion;
30- The definition of a poem;
31- Art, play, and civilization;
32- The imagination;
33- Truth and revelation theories;
34- The two use of language;
35- Poetry and beliefs;
Index.