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Richards of Cambridge Will Lecture on Modern Poetry

Former Visiting Lecturer Here and Student of Philology

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Ivor Armstrong Richards of Magdalene College, Cambridge, will give a lecture on "Some Aspects of Modern Poetry" Thursday afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in Emerson D.

Mr. Richards gave a course here as a visiting lecturer in 1931. In 1929 he journeyed to China to act as a visiting professor at Tsing Hua University for one year. Since 1926 he has been a Fellow of Magdalene College at Cambridge, where he had formerly received his education.

Well known as a lecturer, Mr. Richards is also an author of repute. Numbered among his twelve odd works are: "Practical Criticism," "Coleridge on Imagination," "Science and Poetry," and "The Meaning of Meaning." As is evident from the titles of his books, Mr. Richards has made a thorough study of philology.

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