They argue that the “design or intention of the author is neither available nor desirable as a standard for judging the success of a work of literary art” (3) and that this is a “principle which goes deep into some differences in the history of critical attitudes. Wimsatt and Beardsley contend that the “claim of the author's ‘intention’ upon the critic's judgment has been challenged in a number of recent discussions” (3) but doubt whether “most of its romantic corollaries are as yet subject to any widespread questioning” (3). “The Intentional Fallacy.” The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry. BEARDSLEY “THE INTENTIONAL FALLACY” (1946) Wimsatt, William, and Monroe C.
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