Kieran Quinlan (essay date 1989)
SOURCE: Quinlan, Kieran. “Poems about ‘God.’” In John Crowe Ransom's Secular Faith, pp. 14-24. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.
[In the following essay, Quinlan contends that the religious themes of the poems comprising Poems about God reflect Ransom's early religious development.]
Perhaps what strikes one most about Ransom as he prepared to return to the United States from Oxford in 1913 is his general buoyancy. Certainly that is the case whenever one thinks of a morbid Eliot in...
Source: Poetry Criticism, ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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