John Crowe Ransom Was Wrong Literary history is a shortcut to the advantages of wide reading and long experience, without which there is no good literary criticism, and without which one cannot ...

Perhaps it’s their quality of self-effacement that makes John Crowe Ransom’s poems unusual, particularly for contemporary readers acclimatized to solipsistic, ‘I’-driven verse. The poet John Crowe ...

I n a nation whose literary life is wedded to the colleges, quiet, courtly Poet John Crowe Ransom has for years been one of literature’s most influential college teachers. An ironist of edged ...

THE WORLD'S BODY—John Crowe Ransom—Scribner ($2.75). There is no primer of modern poetry. Readers who are intimidated by its obscurity soon find that most prose explanations tend to ...

John Crowe Ransom. To meet a need which had been felt for some time both in the United States and abroad, the pamphlet series, the University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers, was ...

Fugitive-and other-poetry reading will mark this weekend at the Summer School as local poets gather in Lamont Forum Room tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 p.m. to pay tribute to Fugitive John Crowe ...

John Crowe Ransom, in the book’s statement of principles, attacked a strictly-business or industrial civilization. He rued a gospel of progress with the first essay.