John Crowe Ransomware

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John Crowe Ransomware (1941)

John Crowe Ransom (born April 30, 1888 in Pulaski , Tennessee , † July 3, 1974 in Gambier , Ohio ) was an American writer and critic.

Life

Ransom graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville . He taught there until 1937. He belonged to the Fugitives and published their worldview in 1930 in I'll take my. The South and the agrarian tradition .

From 1937 to 1958, Ransom was Professor of English Literature at Kenyon College in Gambier.

In 1939 he founded The Kenyon Review . There and in The new criticism (1941) he represented the program of New Criticism .

In 1953, Ransom was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1965 to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Works (selection)

Essays / literary criticism

  • God without thunder, an 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)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biographies ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of members on the Vanderbilt University website  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.library.vanderbilt.edu
  2. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1950-1999 ( [1] ). Retrieved September 23, 2015
  3. ^ Members: John Crowe Ransomware. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 21, 2019 (with awards notes).
personal data
SURNAME Ransomware, John Crowe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and critic
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Pulaski , Tennessee
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 1974
Place of death Gambier , Knox County, Ohio