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The Kenyon Review

American literary magazine

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The Kenyon Review is an American literary magazine founded in 1939 by poet and literary critic John Crowe Ransom, who taught at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. The college itself is the oldest private college in Ohio, established in 1824 by Philander Chase, the first Episcopal bishop of Ohio. The magazine has become influential in American literary circles.

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