John Crowe Ransom
John Crowe Ransom ( born April 30, 1888 in Pulaski, Tennessee; † 3 July 1974 in Gambier, Knox County ( Ohio)) was an American writer and critic.
Life
Ransom studied at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Until 1937 he taught there as well. He was a member of the Fugitives and published their view of the world was in 1930 I'll take my. The South and the agrarian tradition.
From 1937 to 1958 Ransom was a professor of English literature at Kenyon College in Gambier.
In 1939 he founded the journal The Kenyon Review. There and in The new criticism (1941 ) he represented the program of the New Criticism.
Works (selection)
Essays / Literature Criticism
- God without thunder, to unorthodox defense of orthodoxy (1930 )
- The world 's body (1938 )
- The new criticism (1941 )
- The Kenyon Critics (1951 )
- Beating the bushes (1972 )
Poetry
- Selected poems (1945 )