Blackmur

Believing it knew the truth, Scrutiny felt secure in denouncing the later work of Empson and Richards and in disregarding critics in the colonies such as Blackmur, Burke, and Frye.

Scrutiny Grant, John E. 1964

R.P. Blackmur: Form and Value like the Stones in an Arch »

Collecting Iris Murdoch Novels, for their Covers… 2009

The Princeton critic R.P. Blackmur was of great aid here.

The Afterlife of the Lion Joseph Epstein 2012

When I wrote my first book, I remembered what Blackmur said, and I said to myself, I must slow myself down.

The Write Stuff 2009

While at Princeton, he studied writing with John Berryman and R.P. Blackmur, to whom his fifth book, The Moving Target (1963), was later dedicated.

September « 2007 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007

Blackmur, and Allen Tate did not enjoy a “purely aesthetic attitude towards life,” they certainly tried as hard as Joyce or Henry James to devote themselves single-mindedly to literature.

Single-minded devotion to literature 2009

While at Princeton, he studied writing with John Berryman and R.P. Blackmur, to whom his fifth book, The Moving Target (1963), was later dedicated.

w.s. merwin | before the flood « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007

Blackmur, and Allen Tate did not enjoy a “purely aesthetic attitude towards life,” they certainly tried as hard as Joyce or Henry James to devote themselves single-mindedly to literature.

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

Randall Jarrell was part of our greatest age of criticism: the age of Eliot, Richards, Warren, Blackmur, Tate, Brooks, Ransom.

Influential Critics 2006

Randall Jarrell was part of our greatest age of criticism: the age of Eliot, Richards, Warren, Blackmur, Tate, Brooks, Ransom.

Influential Critics 2006