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And the chieftain’s head, with grinning sockets, and varnished—
Is it hung on the sky with a hideous epitaphy?
No, the woman keeps the trophy. - John Crowe Ransom Attribution: John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974), U.S. poet. Judith of Bethulia (l. 34–36). . . Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O’Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company.

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John Crowe Ransom

Encyclopedia:

• Ransom, John Crowe (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
• Ransom, John Crowe (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• John Crowe Ransom (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• John Crowe Ransom (Critical Survey of Poetry)
• John Crowe Ransom (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

Literary Criticism:

• Ransom, John Crowe (Vol. 11) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Ransom, John Crowe (Vol. 5) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Ransom, John Crowe (Poetry)
• Ransom, John Crowe (Vol. 24) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Ransom, John Crowe (Vol. 4) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Ransom, John Crowe (Vol. 2) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• John Crowe Ransom dies
• The publication of John Crowe Ransom's The New Criticism unofficially founds the movement of that name
• “Twelve Southerners,” whose number includes John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren, publish I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition
• John Crowe Ransom publishes God without Thunder: An Unorthodox Defense of Orthodoxy
• John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, Allen Tate, and other members of “the Fugitives” school of American poetry publish the quarterly journal The Fugitive in Nashville
• John Crowe Ransom is born