Richard Palmer Blackmur (January 21, 1904 – February 2, 1965) was an American literary critic and poet.
[1] An autodidact, Blackmur worked in a bookshop after high school, and attended lectures at Harvard University without enrolling.
He was managing editor of the literary quarterly Hound & Horn from 1928 to 1930, at which time he resigned, although he continued to contribute to the magazine until its demise in 1934.
[3] In 1940 Blackmur moved to Princeton University, where he taught first creative writing and then English literature for the next twenty-five years.
[6] Frederick Crews parodied Blackmur as "P. R. Honeycomb" in his 1963 book of satirical literary criticism The Pooh Perplex.