John Crowe Ransom

A noted poet, editor, and educator, John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) was one of a group of southern agrarian poets known as the Fugitives. Ransom's first teaching position at age 17, was at Taylorsville High School (1905-1906). He later became a ...

Donald Grady Davidson (1893~1966) John Crowe Ransom (1888~1974)

Giles County natives Donald G. Davidson and John C. Ransom were influential personages in American literature. Professors at Vanderbilt University, they helped found The Fugitive (1922~25), a magazine which launched the "Southern literary renaissance." They contributed to the essential Agrarian ...

John Crowe Ransom &

The Kenyon Review

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In 1938 the president of Kenyon College, Gordon Keith Chalmers, brought one of the nation's most distinguished poets and critics, John Crowe Ransom, to the Gambier Hill. Chalmers brought Ransom to Kenyon College to create ...