John Crowe Ransom (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
John Crowe Ransom, besides being a fine poet in his own right, was perhaps the most influential critic in the United States in the mid-twentieth century. His influence stemmed from three sources: the examples he set in his own poetry; the pronouncements he made as the leader of two related but distinct literary movements, southern Agrarianism and the New Criticism; and the power of selection he exerted as the editor of the Kenyon Review. A college teacher since 1914 and a professor, first at Vanderbilt University and then at Kenyon College, starting in 1924, Ransom applied the...
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