John Crowe Ransom, American poet, critic, and academic (died 1974)

John Crowe Ransom

American writer and literary critic

John Crowe Ransom was 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…