John Crowe Ransom
John Crowe Ransom
John Crowe Ransomwas 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. Highly respected as a teacher and mentor to a generation of accomplished students, he also was a prize-winning poet and essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 April 1888
CountryUnited States of America
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And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.