Classic to Modern English Literature

↓ Introduction of New Criticism   New Criticism is a literary theory movement that originated in the first half of the 20th century in the United States and Great Britain. It is a formalist style of criticism that focuses on analyzing the text itself, without considering any external factors. New Criticism emphasizes close reading of a work of literature, particularly poetry, to discover how it functions as a self-contained, self-referential aesthetic object.  ↓ Founder of New Criticism   This theory arose in America and Great Britain in the first half of the 20th century. The movement derived its name from John Crowe Ransom's 1941 book The New Criticism. The works of Cambridge scholar I. A. Richards, especially his Practical Criticism, The Principles of Literary Criticism, and The Meaning of Meaning, which offered what was claimed to be an empirical scientific approach, were important to the development of a New Critical methodology.  Cleanth Brooks, John Crowe Ransom, and W. K. W