Who wrote, 'The two pillars upon which a theory of criticism must rest are an account of value and an account of communication'?
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Correct answer: B. I. A. Richards
Explanation
The sentence opens a chapter of I. A. Richards' Principles of Literary Criticism (1924). Richards grounded value in the psychological balancing of 'impulses' and treated poetry as communication of experience; his Practical Criticism (1929) later shaped New Critical close reading.
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