R. P. Blackmur

Richard Palmer Blackmur (1904-1965) was an American literary critic and poet. He was born and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. An autodidact, Blackmur worked in a bookshop after graduating from high school, and attended lectures at Harvard University without enrolling. 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.

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1904 - 1965 - American - Literary critic - Poet - Boston, Massachusetts - Autodidact - Harvard University - 1935 - 1930 - Modernist - New Critics

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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.

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1940 - Princeton University

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