Show threadBrian SmallMay 22
"...I find myself deeply persuarded that the analogies that help most here are biological, organic, more specifically, embryological."

"The over-all problem of the embryo was long ago described by the Psalmist--- in the course of giving his own answer:

Thine eyes did see my substance yet being unperfect; And in they book were all my members written; Which day by day were fashioned: When as yet there was none of them.

'When as yet there was none of them,' how do they know what to become next in the course of becoming what in the end they have to be? That is the problem of the embryo."

--- I.A. Richards Poetries And Sciences pp. 107-108

#EmbryoAnology #PoemOrganism #OrganicPoetry #IARichards #PoetriesAndSciences

@bsmall2

Show threadbsmall2Apr 9
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> When we think of the technology of movable-type print it is always in a spirit of gratitude, which is only as it should be. Yet, for all its blessings, print was also responsible for deepening the divide between words and images.
> Before the invention of print words and images had usually been closely joined, no matter whether in paper or papyrus, parchment or bark. Illuminated manuscripts joined letters and images so that each added to the other.
#ImageLetterCombination
This got me thinking of #IARichards and the #EPBooks , his hopes for TV😭
Show threadbsmall2Apr 7
> ... it is not the quantity of the words we are acquainted with, but the quality of our understanding of them, which matters. The chief vice of foreign-language learning (and indeed of much native-language learning) is picking up words without learning quite what they mean, accepting them with indefinite and vague meanings that thereafter obscure their real uses from us.
https://web.archive.org/web/20081204112933/http://www.hltmag.co.uk/sep05/mart05.htm#C5
#BillTemplar quotes #IARichards on #EnoughEnglish
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bsmall2Apr 6
> "I think we have a better way of teaching English, but while you're teaching beginning English, you might as well teach everything else. That is to say, a world position, what's needed for living, a philosophy of religion, how to find things out and the whole works - mental and moral seed for the planet."
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1969/3/11/an-interview-with-i-a-richards/
#LanguageWorld #BeginningEnglish #IaR #IARichards
An Interview With I. A. Richards | News | The Harvard Crimson

"I think we have a better way of teaching English, but while you're teaching beginning English, you might as well

bsmall2Mar 24

Slight edits to copied post from a previous mstdn account:

> This little book is an example of the free use of Basic English.

> Is another step possible which would put the defense of all
countries in the hands of the PEOPLES of the earth?
> Can we make the UN into a UP— a United Peoples’ Government?
> Can we put defense in the hands of a World Government responsible to and representative of the PEOPLES..

- https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.74399
#UnitedWorldFederalists
#IaR #IaRichards #NationsAndPeace #UnitedPeoples #UnitedNations #BasicEnglish #CKOgden

Nations And Peace : I. A. Richards : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Book Source: Digital Library of India Item 2015.74399dc.contributor.author: I. A. Richardsdc.date.accessioned: 2015-06-30T14:22:44Zdc.date.available:...

Internet Archive
bsmall2Feb 10

I have to figure out how to log in and borrow Archive.org books one day:

It's nice when you can download books onto your own HD and caliber library.. but sometimes, you can't...

https://archive.org/details/wrathofachilles0000iari/page/6/mode/1up

#TheIliad #WrathOfAchilles #IARichards

cont.
https://archive.org/details/iliadofhomerwrat0000iari/page/6/mode/1up

bsmall2Feb 9
" Traditionally, and rightly, the prophet trembles. On him lies a double duty: that of acutally swaying the future by his words; and that of being a /true/ prophet--- not a false one. The penalty for being a false prophet... is to be stoned to death... consult Deuteronomy 13..."
#RichardsOnProphets #ProphetsDoubleTask #ProphetsDoubleDuty
#IARichards in #TheFutureOfPoetry #Deuteronomy13
bsmall2Feb 5

Instead of Percy Shelly's "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world" we should take the pressure of the human individual and say, like I.A. Richards "Poetry is the unacknowledged legislation of the world".

Otherwise it's hard to make use of a lot of poems and other works... like Chomsky's analysis of Western power, policy, and media..
#PoetLegislators or #PoetryLegislation #PercyShelley #IARichards

bsmall2Jan 28

"Poetry is the unacknowledged legislation of the world" --- I.A. Richards

> "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.." --- Shelley

In Defense of Poetry
(Helped Coleridge... according to Richards...)
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5428/5428-h/5428-h.htm

#PoetLegislators #PoetryLegislation
#PercyShelley #IARichards

"In this case, we must embrace the song if not the singer"
#JeffreyStClair on #BruceSpringstein's
#StreetsOfMinneapolis got me thinking of Shelley and Richards lines, Chomsky's questionable relations with Epstein too...

A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays, by Percy Bysshe Shelley

bsmall2Jan 16
> I.A.Richardsはことばの意味を次の4つに分けて考えました。
> 1. sense: それについて考えるべき対象。
> 2. feeling: 話し手がその対象に対してあらわした感情。
> 3. tone: 話し手が聞き手に対する態度。
> 4. intention: 話し手がひきおこそうとしている目的。
https://www.gdm-japan.net/material/qa/
#Iar #IARichards #SenseFeelingToneIntention
#ことばの意味
Q&A – GDM英語教授法研究会