What is 'Practical Criticism'?
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Correct answer: C. The close analysis of poems without taking account of any external information
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I. A. Richards gave Cambridge students unsigned poems and studied their 'protocols' (Practical Criticism, 1929): reading the words on the page without author, date or context. Ambiguity is Empson's subject.
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