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| Name: |
John Crowe Ransom | | Birth Date: |
April 30, 1888 | | Death Date: |
July 3, 1974 | | Place of Birth: |
Pulaski, Tennessee, United States | | Place of Death: |
Gambier, Ohio, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
poet, professor |
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Biography of John Crowe Ransom
521 words, approx. 2 pages
 John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974), American poet, critic, and agrarian champion, was the center of the "Fugitive" group, of the Southern Agrarians, and of the New Critics. John Crowe Ransom was born in Pulaski, Tennessee., on April 30, 1888. He received...
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Biography of John Crowe Ransom
9,412 words, approx. 31 pages
 John Crowe Ransom was one of the most versatile and significant men of letters of his generation. As poet Isabel Gambel MacCafrey has written, "he provided a small but accurate mirror of the modern sensibility. . . . He has been celebrated rightly, as...
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Biography of John Crowe Ransom
9,093 words, approx. 30 pages
 John Crowe Ransom was one of the most versatile and significant men of letters of his generation. As poet, Isabel Gambel MacCafrey has written, "he provided a small but accurate mirror of the modern sensibility. In ... [his poems] are reflected the...



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John Crowe Ransom Quotes
249 words, approx. 1 pages
 John Crowe Ransom ( 1888-04-30 – 1974-07-03 ) was a southern American poet, essayist and academic. He was prominent among the Fugitives , the Southern Agrarians and the American exponents of the New Criticism . Sourced For I could tell you a story...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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John Crowe Ransom Information
1,115 words, approx. 4 pages
 John Crowe Ransom (April 30, 1888, Pulaski, Tennessee- July 3, 1974, Gambier, Ohio) was an American poet, essayist, social and political theorist, man of letters, and...



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 ANQ
John Crowe Ransom: A Descriptive Bibliography.(Review) (book review)
03/22/2001: 1,528 words, approx. 5 pages ABBOTT, Craig S. John Crowe Ransom: A Descriptive Bibliography. Troy, NY: Whitston, 1999. vii, 440 pp. $42.50. Craig S. Abbott is aware of the irony of preparing a bibliography of John Crowe Ransom, "who led criticism to triumph in its campaign to...
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 The Mississippi Quarterly
The invisible I: John Crowe Ransom's shadowy speaker.
09/22/1993: 7,200 words, approx. 24 pages The critical tendency to study John Crowe Ransom's poetry as it uses and critiques irony does not adequately explain the linguistic role of the poems. Ransom's use of the 'I' as speaker, along with sometimes mock-poetic diction, has led many critics to attribute to...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Cleanth Brooks
10,456 words, approx. 35 pages
 In the following essay, Brooks recollects his personal friendship with Ransom and examines several of his poems that provide insight into his life.
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Critical Essay by Louise Cowan
9,224 words, approx. 31 pages
 In the following essay, Cowan elucidates Ransom's Southern attitude toward women as evinced in his poetry.
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Critical Essay by Scott Romine
6,839 words, approx. 23 pages
 In the following essay, Romine examines the speaker in Ransom's verse and argues that “the ironic stance usually ascribed to this figure fails to explain fully its role.”


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