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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
R. P. Blackmur
![R. P. Blackmur](/img/nopic_profile.png)
Born: January 21, 1904
Died: February 2, 1965 (aged 61)
Bio: Richard Palmer Blackmur was an American literary critic and poet.
Known for:
- Language as gesture (1952)
- Studies in Henry James
- Poems of R. P. Blackmur
- Selected essays of R.P. Blackmur
- The lion and the honeycomb (1956)