A Mingled Yarn
The Life of R.P.Blackmur
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2010
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4128-1447-8 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4128-1447-8 (ISBN)
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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 numerous plays, poems, and short stories. He devoted most of his life to studies on Henry Adams - someone he saw in himself. In his lifetime, he received a 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 the wilds of Maine. 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.
Russell Fraser is Austin Warren Professor Emeritus of English Literature and Language, University of Michigan. Among his books are Moderns Worth Keeping and Shakespeare: A Life in Art, both available from Transaction, and Singing Masters, and 1500 to the Present.
Introduction to the Transaction Edition Preface Chronology 1. Past and Present 2. Breaking Out 3. Good and Evil in the One Lump 4. The Witnessing Art Blackmur at Poetry 5. A Failure Worth Making The Life of Henry Adams 6. Diabolus in the Scale Blackmur at Fiction 7. The Pedagogue of Sensibility 8. A Lion in the Path 9. Through the Ashes of His Chance 10. The Critic as Artist Notes Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.5.2010 |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 566 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4128-1447-2 / 1412814472 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4128-1447-8 / 9781412814478 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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