...Bernard Duffey The Stock of Available Reality: R. P. Blackmur and John Berryman . By Bloom James D. . Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press , 1984 . Pp. 7 , 216 . $24.50 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 204 The South Atlantic Quarterly Degree Zero, Roland...

... contest that Blackmur and Berryman, each in his own way, posed against such orthodoxy and, for Mr. Bloom, a reinvesting of poetic outside the modernist canon in such figures as Milton, Shakespeare, Whitman, and Keats, the better to free his own enterprise. Post-modern is not a term that Mr. Bloom uses...

... a professional critic, let alone a professional Marxist. I aim principally to open a critical discussion which will touch upon fundamental problems of literature and criticism their relation to each other and to the time in which we live. Farrell may have been echoing R. P. Blackmur s A Critic s Job of Work...

... that is most intriguing and valuable precisely because it fails to remain authoritative. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY DAVID SIMPSON The Stock of Available Reality: R. P. Blackmur and John Berryman. By James D. Bloom. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1984. Pp. 7, 216. $24.50. James Bloom s book is both...

... of imitation its singular authority, and is again giving Auerbach s notion of mimesis, Susanne Langer s concept of virtual experience, and Blackmur s idea of behavior their special and different types of validity. Finally, I should like to suggest that criticism, through Doctrine and Taste, can meet...

.... Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1959. Pp. 111. $2.95. In November, 1958, The Johns Hopkins Poetry Festival was held in Baltimore, and on that occasion four American poets spoke on modern poetry: R. P. Blackmur, Yvor Winters, Marianne Moore, and Mark Van Doren. Their four lectures are collected...

... on The Defense of Poetry, George San­ tayana on The Nature of Beauty. The second section contains essays on modern critical theory, in which T. S. Hulme, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Allen Tate, and R. P. Blackmur speak on the function of criticism, in which I. A. Richards, W. K. Wimsatt, Robert Penn Warren...

... also for the typographical errors prevalent in the French text. What is not so easy to explain is that Messrs. Richard Blackmur and Allen Tate, who encouraged and assisted Mr. Bennett in the revision of his work, should have failed to steer him away from the beginner s pitfalls. Impressed by Baudelaire...

.... In defending the merits of James s last novels, he follows F. O. Matthiessen (with whom he frequently disagrees) and owes his largest debt to R. P. Blackmur. The question of the highly involuted style of the last novels, a style that has alienated many of the faithful and has split critics into camps...

... words at the outset, I will say that I concur with R. P. Blackmur s statement of 1934 that Pound is neither a great poet nor a great thinker, though this should be qualified by a lengthy considera­ tion of the vicissitudes of modern poetry in America, England, and ...

... suggest: While Richard Blackmur punned in presenting criticism as a featherbed or a burden and Allen Tate proclaimed the profession of letters, Matthiessen looked to The Re­ sponsibilities of the Critic (1949). Stern examines, along with American Renaissance, Matthiessen s books on James, Eliot...

... ideologically neglected. For this reason, Frederick Stern s F. O. Matthiessen: Christian Socialist as Critic is a useful book. Matthiessen was probably the most conscientious critic-teacher of his generation, as contrasting manifesto titles suggest: While Richard Blackmur punned in presenting criticism...

... in Baltimore, and on that occasion four American poets spoke on modern poetry: R. P. Blackmur, Yvor Winters, Marianne Moore, and Mark Van Doren. Their four lectures are collected in this volume, edited and with an introduction by Don Cameron Allen. To try to provide a frame of reference for the lectures...

... 200 of 257 the eccentric modernist critic R. P. Blackmur, a former professor of Said’s 5 at Princeton in the mids. What has made these affinities difficult to discern and elaborate together...

...: Louisiana State University Press, 1948. Pp. xi, 339. $3.50. Mr. Heilman s book is in the romantic tradition, dating back to Cole­ ridge. But it is strictly twentieth-century romanticism, an attempt to apply the methods of the so-called new critics of lyrical verse (Brooks, Blackmur, Ransom, etc...

... verse (Brooks, Blackmur, Ransom, etc.) to a Shakespearean play. By concentrating on the language of the play Mr. Heilman has derived certain interrelated, symbolic patterns, which together, he thinks, form the structure of the play: the Sight Pattern (Chapter II), Clothes Pattern (III), Nature Pat­ tern...

... words at the outset, I will say that I concur with R. P. Blackmur s statement of 1934 that Pound is neither a great poet nor a great thinker, though this should be qualified by a lengthy considera­ tion of the vicissitudes of modern poetry in America, England, and 488 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

... guest speakers happened to deliver them as lectures at the Festival. No editor, and no general title, it seems, can give them much unity. Mr. Blackmur, the first lec­ turer, has chosen to discuss and interpret the rather out-of-the-way poet Edwin Muir, after admitting the indifference of both English...

... re­ leased the expressive burden of sensibility into forms which were suddenly available for everybody . . as Blackmur said of the poems of Yeats, Eliot, and Pound. But one can hope and sympathize with Muir when he writes: The ideal poetry for our needs today . . . would be a poetry that was both...

... of writers with progressive tendencies. In his essay, Notes on E. E. Cummings Language, which measured the effect of Cummings s choice of vocabulary in his poetry, R. P. Blackmur paused to consider the poet s partiality for typo­ graphical eccentricity. Excessive hyphenation of single words, the use...