Selected essays of R.P. Blackmur
By: edited and with an introduction by Denis Donoghue.
Contributors: Donoghue, Denis.
Edition: Edited and with an Introduction
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
Copyright date: 1930, 1931, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1943, 1948, 1951, 1964, 1985
Subjects: Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
First sentence: In 1941 John Crowe Ransom published The New Criticism, an account of certain critical procedures as practised by T. S. Eliot, I. A. Richards, William Empson, Yvor Winters, and R. P. Blackmur.
Description: Examines the nature of literary criticism and analyzes the works of writers including E. E. Cummings, Henry James, Thomas Mann, and Emily Dickinson
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: label: Introduction
title: The sublime Blackmur
pagenum: 3; title: ONE; label: A Critic’s Job of Work
title: 19; label: Notes on E. E. Cummings’ Language
title: 47; label: Examples of Wallace Stevens
title: 71; label: New Thresholds, New Anatomies: Notes on a Text of Hart Crane
title: 101; label: The Method of Marianne Moore
title: 119; label: The Later Poetry of W. B. Yeats
title: 145; label: Emily Dickinson: Notes on Prejudice and Fact
title: 171; label: Unappeasable and Peregrine: Behavior and the Four Quartets
title: 197; title: TWO; label: The Expense of Greatness: Three Emphases on Henry Adams
title: 229; title: THREE; label: The Critical Prefaces of Henry James
title: 249; label: Henry James
title: 279; label: Crime and Punishment: Murder in Your Own Room
title: 311; label: Parody and Critique: Mann’s Doctor Faustus
title: 333; label: The Charterhouse of Parma
title: 353