SOURCE: Perosa, Sergio. “R.P. Blackmur: The Break-down of New Criticism.” In Cross-Cultural Studies: American, Canadian, and European Literatures, 1945-1985, edited by Mirko Jurak, pp. 15-18. Ljubljana, Slovenija: Filozofska Fakulteta, 1988.
In the following essay, Perosa describes Blackmur's theories of poetry criticism, tracing its evolution from the early tenets of New Criticism to what Perosa terms as a later “break-down” of that mode of interpretation.
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