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New Criticism was a formalist literary theory movement that emphasized close reading of texts, particularly poetry, as self-contained aesthetic objects. John Crowe Ransom coined the term "New Criticism" in 1941 to describe this approach. New Critics focused on analyzing literary devices like metaphor, irony, and tension within a text. Other influential figures in the New Criticism movement included T.S. Eliot, who argued poetry should be impersonal and separate from the writer, and I.A. Richards, who develo

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Olivia Fernandez

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