Ransom, John Crowe
Ransom, John Crowe( 1888–1974),Tennessee poet, was educated in his native state and as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford (1913). He was a member of the English department of Vanderbilt University (1914–37) and early became a leader of the Agrarians and an editor of The Fugitive In 1937 he joined the faculty of Kenyon College, where he remained until retiring in 1958. He founded and edited the Kenyon Review, placing stress on the New Criticism more than on the regionalism that he formerly emphasized. His first verse, Poems About God (1919), although not sufficiently valued by him for selection in later volumes, was already marked by the irony that is more accomplished in Chills and Fever (1924). Grace After Meat (1924) is an English selection from these two books, which was followed by Two Gentlemen in Bonds (1927). His balanced judgment of opposites and his portraits of people in his elegies are distinguished by a...
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