ANQ, March 22nd, 2001
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 displace bibliographical and historical study as the primary focus of English departments." In 1940, in "Strategy for English Studies," Ransom pronounced that professors of poetry "stand at the end of a long road" and have engaged in "literary scholarship," not in literary criticism. For most of them, he stated, it will be extremely difficult to "...
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