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
Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.
Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.
And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.
And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.
Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.