John Crowe Ransom at Kenyon College in 1941. Photo by Robie Macauley.
Born
(1888-04-30)April 30, 1888
Pulaski, Tennessee, US
Died
July 3, 1974(1974-07-03) (aged 86)
Gambier, Ohio, US
Resting place
Kenyon College Cemetery, Gambier, Ohio
Nationality
American
Alma mater
Vanderbilt University (B.A.) Christ Church, Oxford (M.A.)
Occupations
Educator
scholar
literary critic
poet
essayist
Employer
Kenyon College
Known for
New Criticism school of literary criticism
Partner
Robb Reavill
Awards
Rhodes 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]
^"Nomination Archive - John Crowe Ransom". NobelPrize.org. March 2024. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
JohnCroweRansom (April 30, 1888 – July 3, 1974) was an American educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, essayist and editor. He is considered to be...
to the development of a New Critical methodology. Cleanth Brooks, JohnCroweRansom, and W. K. Wimsatt also made significant contributions to New criticism...
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Ohio, US, home of Kenyon College. The Review was founded in 1939 by JohnCroweRansom, critic and professor of English at Kenyon College, who served as...
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scholarship and transferred to Kenyon College to be a student of JohnCroweRansom. There he lived in a writer's house with Robert Lowell, Peter Taylor...
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notable literary movements, the Fugitives and the Southern Agrarians; JohnCroweRansom was a member of the English department. Robert Penn Warren is an alumnus...
collaborators Robert Penn Warren, JohnCroweRansom, Andrew Lytle, and Donald Davidson (Singh 1991). Studying with Ransom and Warren, Brooks became involved...
attending some classes taught by JohnCroweRansom at Vanderbilt), Lowell decided to leave Harvard. When Tate and JohnCroweRansom left Vanderbilt for Kenyon...
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committed first by Plato, Saint Augustine, Avicenna, and even the Bible. JohnCroweRansom called Maritain's accusation of angelism a "phantasy". According to...
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symbolize the search for the spiritual life by a journey to that city. JohnCroweRansom comments: "The prayer is addressed to holy sages who dwell I know...
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critic JohnCroweRansom in 1937 as professor of poetry and first editor of The Kenyon Review, a literary journal. During his 21-year tenure, Ransom published...