John Crowe Ransom
John Crowe Ransom (April 30, 1888 – July 3, 1974) 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 Review. Highly respected as a teacher and mentor to a generation of accomplished students, he also was a prize-winning poet and essayist. He was nominated for the 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature.[1]
John Crowe Ransom
April 30, 1888
July 3, 1974 (aged 86)
Kenyon College Cemetery, Gambier, Ohio
American
Vanderbilt University (B.A.)
Christ Church, Oxford (M.A.)
- Educator
- scholar
- literary critic
- poet
- essayist
New Criticism school of literary criticism
Robb Reavill
Rhodes Scholarship, Bollingen Prize for Poetry, National Book Award
Personal life and death[edit]
In 1920, he married Robb Reavill, a well-educated young woman who shared his interest in sports and games.[17] Together they raised three children: a daughter, Helen, and two sons, David and John.[18]
Ransom died on July 3, 1974, in Gambier at the age of eighty-six. He was buried at the Kenyon College Cemetery in Gambier.