Blackmur
Americannoun
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Blackmur famously wrote, “it sometimes seems as if … a cat came at us speaking English.”
From Slate • Nov. 8, 2019
A scholarship student at Princeton, he remembered working in the horse stables and apprenticing himself to R. P. Blackmur, the brilliant, gnomic critic, and to Blackmur’s friend, the poet John Berryman.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 17, 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
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
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