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It is never what a poem says that matters, but what it is.

I. A. Richards

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I. A. Richards
Age: 86 †
Born: 1893
Born: February 26
Died: 1979
Died: September 7
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Writer
Sandbach
Cheshire
Ivor Armstrong Richards
Never
Poem
Matters
Poetry
Says
Art
Matter

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