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John Crowe Ransom
John Crowe Ransom at Kenyon College in 1941. Photo by Robie Macauley.
Born(1888-04-30)April 30, 1888
Pulaski, Tennessee, US
DiedJuly 3, 1974(1974-07-03) (aged 86)
Gambier, Ohio, US
Resting placeKenyon College Cemetery, Gambier, Ohio
NationalityAmerican
Alma materVanderbilt University (B.A.)
Christ Church, Oxford (M.A.)
Occupations
  • Educator
  • scholar
  • literary critic
  • poet
  • essayist
EmployerKenyon College
Known forNew Criticism school of literary criticism
PartnerRobb Reavill
AwardsRhodes Scholarship, Bollingen Prize for Poetry, National Book Award

John Crowe Ransom (April 30, 1888 – July 3, 1974) was an American educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, essayist and editor. He is considered to be a founder of the New Criticism school of literary criticism. As a faculty member at Kenyon College, he was the first editor of the widely regarded Kenyon Review. Highly respected as a teacher and mentor to a generation of accomplished students, he also was a prize-winning poet and essayist. He was nominated for the 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature.[1]

  1. ^ "Nomination Archive - John Crowe Ransom". NobelPrize.org. March 2024. Retrieved 14 March 2024.

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collaborators Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom, Andrew Lytle, and Donald Davidson (Singh 1991). Studying with Ransom and Warren, Brooks became involved...

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attending some classes taught by John Crowe Ransom at Vanderbilt), Lowell decided to leave Harvard. When Tate and John Crowe Ransom left Vanderbilt for Kenyon...

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Broadview Anthology of Poetry

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Review, edited by John Crowe Ransom, espoused the so-called New Criticism. Its platform was avowedly unpolitical. Although Ransom came from the South...

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Oxford poetry anthologies

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McCarthy, Sociology Otto Nikodym, Mathematics Paul Radin, Anthropology John Crowe Ransom, English Charles Ritcheson, History Richard G. Salomon, History Benjamin...

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critic John Crowe Ransom in 1937 as professor of poetry and first editor of The Kenyon Review, a literary journal. During his 21-year tenure, Ransom published...

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