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Winter 1989 • Vol. XI No. 1 • Special Anniversary Feature: Excerpts from the War Years |

Ubiquitous Moralists

From the Winter 1941 issue.

Few if any critics live who write better criticism than Mr. R. P. Blackmur; I mean subtler and deeper criticism, and sounder. He probes the poem with a keen instrument, and his judgments, so far as such an adjective is ever applicable, are close enough to infallible.

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