Blackmur, R(ichard) P(almer) (1904-1965)

US literary critic and poet. Self-educated, he became a prominent critic of modern literature in the 1920s and 1930s, later writing critical theory. He also published three volumes of poems. His critical works include The Expense of Greatness (1940), Language as Gesture (1952), and The Lion and the Honeycomb (1955).

From 1936 to 1938 he held a Guggenheim fellowship, and he was professor of English at Princeton University 1948-65.