biography
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Blackmur, R(ichard) P(almer)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1904–65)
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| biography:
| Literary critic and poet, born in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. Self-educated, he became a prominent 1920s–1930s New Critic of modern literature, later writing involuted and difficult essays on critical theory. He also published three volumes of poems. |
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