Brad Leithauser (review date 5 August 1991)
SOURCE: Leithauser, Brad. “Sly Visitor.” The New Republic 205, no. 6 (5 August 1991): 36-41.
[In the following review of the reissue of Ransom's Selected Poems, Leithauser determines the reasons for the poet's waning popularity and urges a reappraisal and greater attention to his verse.]
In one of his sonnets John Crowe Ransom conjures up a pair of lovers with the phrase “a broken whispering by night,” words that might also describe the passing of the centenary of his birth three years...
Source: Poetry Criticism, ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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