Volume 28, Number 5 · April 2, 1981
An Unfinished Man
By Viola Hopkins Winner
Henry Adams
by R. P. Blackmur
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 354 pp., $19.95
Henry Adams: The Myth of Failure
by William Dusinberre
University of Virginia Press, 250 pp., $20.00
Like Henry Adams, R.P. Blackmur was largely a self-taught man of letters. Unlike Adams, Harvard class of 1858, Blackmur did not go to college. I mention this biographical detail only because it may have something to do with the reason why Blackmur's study is so personal rather than conventionally academic. It testifies to an extraordinary affinity with Adams, also evident elsewhere in Blackmur's criticism.
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