John Crowe Ransom
Who is John Crowe Ransom
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.
Background
John Crowe Ransom was born on April 30, 1888, in Pulaski, Tennessee. His father, John James Ransom (1853–1934) was a Methodist minister. His mother was Sara Ella (Crowe) Ransom (1859–1947). He had two sisters, Annie Phillips and Ella Irene, and one brother, Richard. He grew up in Spring Hill, Franklin, Spring...
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John Crowe Ransom Poems
- Friendship
I VIEWED him well, the visible fat fool,
And yet I took him in; for I contended,
Friends are not sent in order of our choosing,
They come unsuited like the gifts of God.
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- Grace
WHO is it beams the merriest
At killing a man, the laughing one?
You are the one I nominate,
God of the rivers of Babylon.
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- The Resurrection
LONG, long before men die I sometimes read
Their stoic backs as plain as graveyard stones,
An epitaph of poor dead men indeed.
I never pass those old and crooked bones,
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- Under The Locusts
What do the old men say,
Sitting out of the sun?
Many strange and common things,
And so would any one.
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- Romance Of A Youngest Daughter
Who will wed the Dowagerâ??s youngest daughter,
The Captain? filled with ale?
He moored his expected boat to a stake in the water
And stumbled on sea-legs into the Hall for mating,
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- Chris_navin: wednesday poem-john crowe ransom
- Kulambq: 'i dip my hat to chaucer,
swilling soup from his saucer.
and to master shakespeare
who wrote big on small beer.
the abstemious wordsworth
subsisted on a curd’s worth,
but a slick one was tennyson,
putting gravy on his venison.'
~ john crowe ransom, 'survey of literature'
- Welfordwrites: necrological, a poem by john crowe ransom. a reflection on life and death based on the aftermath of a medieval battle.
- Welfordwrites: bells for john whiteside's daughter, a poem by john crowe ransom. an unsentimental reaction to the death of a young child.
- Robinhemley: at kenyon college (where i just gave a reading last night) there’s a marker commemorating john crowe ransom, influential editor of the kenyon review. he loved my mother’s stories and thought she was among the best writers of her generation.
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