Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose —
Anything goes.
R. P. Blackmur
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)