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John Crowe Ransom: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born April 30, 1888 • Tennessee
Died July 4, 1974 (aged 86) • Ohio
Founder “The Kenyon Review”
Awards And Honors National Book Award • Bollingen Prize (1950)
Notable Works “I’ll Take My Stand” • “The New Criticism” • “The World’s Body”
Movement / Style Fugitives • New Criticism

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Ransom, 1968
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Allen Tate.
Allen Tate
American author
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
American writer
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
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Karl Shapiro
American poet
Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
American poet and translator
Wallace Stevens, 1952
Wallace Stevens
American poet
Mona Van Duyn
Mona Van Duyn
American poet
William Carlos Williams, wearing glasses and a bow tie, sits indoors holding a book with bookshelves and cabinets in the background, circa 1955.
William Carlos Williams
American poet
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Archibald MacLeish
American author, educator, and public official
Howard Nemerov
Howard Nemerov
American writer
Marianne Moore, 1957, photograph by Imogen Cunningham.
Marianne Moore
American poet
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Theodore Roethke
American poet
James Russell Lowell.
James Russell Lowell
American poet and critic
H. L. Mencken stands on a staircase at his Baltimore home, holding a cigar and leaning on the banister, with framed pictures covering the wall behind him.
H.L. Mencken
American writer
John Jay Chapman.
John Jay Chapman
American writer
T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study.
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
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Donald Davidson
American author
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
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Horace Gregory
American poet and critic
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Laura Riding
American poet and critic

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