Blackmur

American  

[blak-mer] / ˈblæk mər /

noun

1. R(ichard) P(almer), 1904–65, U.S. critic and poet.

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Example Sentences

Blackmur famously wrote, “it sometimes seems as if … a cat came at us speaking English.”

From Slate • Nov. 8, 2019

Blackmur and once made a pilgrimage to St. Elizabeths mental hospital in Washington to see Pound, the fascist-friendly poet who had evaded accusations of treason by pleading insanity.

From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2019

Each served a feeling of the poet’s that, Blackmur guessed, “did not exist, even in his own mind, until he had put it down in words.”

From The New Yorker • May 2, 2016

Franklin attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Princeton, where he was inspired to write poetry in a class taught by the poet and critic R. P. Blackmur.

From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2013

R. P. Blackmur and the expense of criticism.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1975 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office