Ransom, John Crowe
Ransom, John Crowe ( 1888 – 1974 ),American poet and critic, born in Tennessee, the son of a Methodist minister, and educated there and at Oxford. From 1937 to 1958 he was a professor at Kenyon College, Ohio, where he founded and edited the important Kenyon Review, a scholarly publication committed to the close textual analysis associated with the New Criticism . His critical works include God without Thunder ( 1930 ) and The New Criticism ( 1941 ), the latter an independent survey of the works of I. A. Richards , Y. Winters , and others. His period of activity as a poet was relatively brief, but his output, notably in Chills and Fever ( 1924 ) and Two Gentlemen in Bonds ( 1927 ), is impressive, and he is particularly remembered for his formal, subtle, taut ballad-portraits and elegies, which include ‘Captain Carpenter’ and ‘Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter’.
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