Richard Luckett is a fellow in English at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where I.A. Richards taught, and Librarian of the Pepys Library, where Richards’s papers are held. He is also Richards’s literary executor.
‘Bless you’ was Ivor Richards’s characteristic farewell in his last years, an envoi which never failed to convey the careful omission of ‘God’. Yet it also recalled, because what he said, though not what he wrote, was often highly allusive, his choice in life of
Kwabena Nketia tells us, in his book African Music, that ‘music’ is defined in Africa through the social uses to which it is put. Some native African languages don’t have a word...
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