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.
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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