Richard Palmer Blackmur (January 21, 1904 – February 2, 1965) was an Americanliterary critic and poet. He was born and grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts. An autodidact, Blackmur worked in a bookshop after graduating from high school, and attended lectures at Harvard University without enrolling. He was managing editor of the literary quarterly Hound & Horn from 1928 to 1930, at which time he resigned, although he continued to contribute to the magazine until its demise in 1934. In 1935 he published his first volume of criticism, The Double Agent; during the 1930s his criticism was influential among many modernist poets and the New Critics. January 21 is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... February 2 is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. ... A poet is some one who writes poetry. ... Nickname: City of Homes Settled: 1636 – Incorporated: 1636 Zip Code(s): 01103 01108 01119 01129 – Area Code(s): 413 Official website: http://www. ... Autodidacticism (also autodidactism) is self-education or self-directed learning. ... Harvard University campus (old map) Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is an accredited private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Hound & Horn, originally subtitled a Harvard Miscellany, was a literary quartelry founded by Harvard undergrads Lincoln Kirstein and Varian Fry in 1927. ... 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... This article focuses on the cultural movement labeled modernism or the modern movement. See also: Modernism (Roman Catholicism) or Modernist Christianity; Modernismo for specific art movement(s) in Spain and Catalonia. ... New Criticism was the dominant trend in English and American literary criticism of the early twentieth century, from the 1920s to the early 1960s. ...
In 1940 Blackmur moved to Princeton University, where he taught first creative writing and then English literature for the next twenty-five years. He founded and directed the university's Christian Gauss Seminars in Criticism, named in honor of his colleague Christian Gauss. He met other influential poets while he taught at Princeton. They include W. S. Merwin and John Berryman. Merwin later published an anthology dedicated to Blackmur and Berryman, and a book of his own poetry (The Moving Target) dedicated to Blackmur. 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... Princeton University is a coeducational private university located in Princeton, New Jersey. ... Christian Gauss (1878-1951) was an influential literary critic and professor of literature. ...
External links
Blackmur from The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
Blackmur from A Princeton Companion by Alexander Leitch (1978)
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