Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. It is in the first place, much too personal and in the second, it is concerned with values that science ignores. A critic must be emotionally alive in every fiber, intellectually capable and skilful in essential logic and then morally very honest. Then it seems to me a good critic should give …
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…touchstone. That if it is touchstone then by which we can judge that it is touchstone. M son...ambiguity theory he presented. Confusing idea developed by him. One literature may critics by many ways. I.A. Richards---he gave the final shape of practical criticism. his theory is de-contextualization it is about text apart from context. None of them followed any practical theory. They criticize on text. Literature should not consider particular pre-conceived idea from context.