Blackmur

[blak-mer]

noun

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

Example Sentences

The program enabled him to combine coursework in literature, music, French and philosophy and to study with the prominent critic R. P. Blackmur.

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

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So the creative-writing professor then was a critic, R. P. Blackmur, then very famous.

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Blackmur, who taught Caro at Princeton, admonished him to “stop thinking with your fingers.”

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This is awfully windy — where is Prof. Blackmur when you need him?

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