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A Mingled Yarn: The Life of R.P.Blackmur
ISBN-13:
9781412814478
ISBN-10:
1412814472
Edition:
1
Author:
Russell Fraser
Publication date:
2010
Publisher:
Routledge
Format:
Paperback
404 pages
Category:
Authors
,
Arts & Literature
,
United States History
,
Cultural
,
Anthropology
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ISBN-13:
9781412814478
ISBN-10:
1412814472
Edition:
1
Author:
Russell Fraser
Publication date:
2010
Publisher:
Routledge
Format:
Paperback
404 pages
Category:
Authors
,
Arts & Literature
,
United States History
,
Cultural
,
Anthropology
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R. P. Blackmur was an American critic and poet, as well as a professor of English literature and creative writing at Princeton University. At the time of his death, he had completed five books and a number of plays and short stories. His poetry mattered most to him and some of it is permanent work. He devoted much of his life to a biography of Henry Adams, someone he saw in himself. In his lifetime, he received his share of adulation, but he was not successful in the way that success is commonly measured. In this work, Russell Fraser follows the course of Blackmur's self-declared failed genius. He tells the story of his precocious youth in Cambridge; his eclectic education; his years of poverty and renown as a poet, novelist, freelance music critic, and essayist; his obsessive marriage to artist Helen Dickson; his entangled friendships with T. S. Eliot, Delmore Schwartz, Allen Tate, and John Berryman; and his passion for rural Maine on the Tidal Water. He discusses Blackmur's crucial role in the literary magazines of the twenties and thirties; his unique influence as instructor of creative writing; the emotional and professional price he paid for a doubtful security at Princeton University; and the torment of wavering between intellectual inertia and prolific inspiration. With empathy and insight, Fraser shows how the trajectory of Blackmur's career parallels the movements in the American literary scene; the experiments in poetry and fiction; the development of the New Criticism; the writer's conflict between order and anarchy, taxonomy and the full response; and the emergence of the critic as artist. A biography, intellectual history, and literary criticism, A Mingled Yarn unravels Blackmur's complex character and celebrates his great achievement.
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