Armstrong Richards was a British poet and scholar. He was the pioneer in the domain of New Criticism. He was an English educator His works are: 1. The Meaning of Meaning – 1923 2. The Principles of Literary Criticism – 1924 3. The Practical Criticism – 1929. He mainly talks about four kinds of misunderstanding: 1.Misunderstanding of the sense of poetry: Careless, Intuitive reading 2.Over-Literal reading: prosaic reading 3.Defective scholarship; inappropriate metaphor 4. Difference in meaning of words in poetry and prose (personification, Metaphors, etc.....) His practical approach gave new path to literary criticism. In his methodology, a lot of importance is given to the words. He believed that poet writes to communicate and language is the means of that communication. Language is made of words and words carry four kinds of meaning: Sense, Feelings, Tone and Intenti...