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John Crowe Ransom

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Gender Male
Death50 years ago
Date of birth April 30,1888
Zodiac sign Taurus
Born Pulaski
Tennessee
United States
Date of died July 3,1974
DiedGambier
Ohio
United States
Resting placeGambier
Job Poet
Journalist
Educator
Essayist
Education Christ Church
Vanderbilt University
University of Oxford
Awards Bollingen Prize
National Book Award for Poetry
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Poetry
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The new criticism
The world's body
Poems about God
complete poems of John Crowe Ransom
Two gentlemen in bonds
God without thunder
Beating the Bushes: Selected Essays, 1941-1970
Selected Poems
Land! The Case for an Agrarian Economy
A college primer of writing
American Poetry at Mid-century
Twigs Bent Under God: New and Selected Poems
Annual Index 1989
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John Crowe Ransom 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.

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