This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising. By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms.

Author photo. Bowen School Yearbook: 1903 Senior Class

Bowen School Yearbook: 1903 Senior Class

John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

Author of Selected Poems

Includes the names: J. C. Ransom, John Crowe Ransom, john crowe ransome, John Crowe Edited by Ransom

Members	Reviews	Popularity	Rating	Favorited	Events
255 (2,950)	12	64,328	(4.09)	4	0

organize | filter

Works by John Crowe Ransom

Selected Poems 87 copies
Poems and Essays 59 copies, 1 review
The World's Body 17 copies
Beating the bushes; selected essays, 1941-1970 12 copies
The New Criticism. 12 copies
The Kenyon Review 9 copies, 1 review
God Without Thunder 7 copies
The Kenyon Critics 6 copies
Land!: The Case for an Agrarian Economy 6 copies
Selected Essays of John Crowe Ransom (Southern Literary Studies) 5 copies
Selected Letters of John Crowe Ransom (Southern Literary Studies) 3 copies
Poems about God 3 copies
Grace after meat 3 copies
Chills and Fever 2 copies

The Equilibrists [poem] 2 copies

The Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom 2 copies

Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter [poem] 2 copies

American Poetry at Mid-Century 2 copies

Piazza Piece [poem] 1 copy

Janet Waking [poem] 1 copy

Judith of Bethulia [poem] 1 copy

A Vintage book 1 copy

Painted Head [poem] 1 copy

Topics for Freshman Writing 1 copy

A college primer of writing 1 copy

Spectral Lovers [poem] 1 copy

Captain Carpenter [poem] 1 copy

Philomela [poem] 1 copy

Tres escritores norteamericanos, VII: John Crowe Ranson, Erza Pound y… 1 copy

Here Lies a Lady [poem] 1 copy

Armageddon 1 copy

(show all 34 works)

organize | filter

Also by John Crowe Ransom

The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost (Contributor) 761 copies, 2 reviews
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (Contributor) 364 copies, 2 reviews
Critical Theory Since Plato (Contributor, some editions) 332 copies
I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition (Contributor) 253 copies
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work From Tennyson to… (Contributor) 120 copies, 1 review
Poems Bewitched and Haunted (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (Contributor) 118 copies
American Religious Poems: An Anthology (Contributor) 114 copies
American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse (Contributor) 112 copies, 2 reviews
The Norton Book of Travel (Contributor) 99 copies, 1 review
The Fugitive Poets: Modern Southern Poetry (Southern Classics Series) (Contributor) 84 copies
Twentieth Century American Poetry (Contributor) 75 copies, 1 review
American Sonnets: An Anthology (Contributor) 49 copies
The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children (Contributor) 48 copies
Who Owns America: A New Declaration of Independence (Contributor) 39 copies

Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy (Editor) 39 copies

In Search of the Simple Life: American Voices, Past and Present (Contributor) 27 copies

Praising It New: The Best of the New Criticism (Contributor) 18 copies, 1 review

The Intent of The Critic (Contributor) 13 copies

Oxford and Oxfordshire in Verse (Contributor) 10 copies

Lectures in Criticism (Contributor) 7 copies

Perspectives on poetry (Contributor) 5 copies

Case-Record from a Sonnetorium (Contributor) 5 copies

A VOYAGE TO THE BRITISH ISLES (Preface) 1 copy

The Fugitives, a Critical Account of the Southern Literary Renaissance 1 copy

Conversations on the craft of poetry (Contributor) 1 copy

Members

Top members (works)

civitas (14), bodrick (8), jasbro (8), ndrose (6), Civitella (6), eereed (6), dougstephens (5), Bess2728 (5), phstitans (5), PermDude (5), RobertGravesLibrary (5), kauders (5), maxvinan (5), ErasmusLibrary (5) — more

Recently added

arborschool (2), rena75 (1), nicbarnard (1), summonedbyfells (1), thebigidea (1), jrayhayes (1), lulawalkup (1), dwab34 (1)

Legacy Libraries

Robert Ranke Graves (5), Sylvia Plath (2), T. E. Lawrence (2), Graham Greene (1), Edna St. Vincent Millay (1), David Foster Wallace (1), Edith Sitwell (1), Anne Sexton (1)

Member favorites

Members: thatOlJanxSpirit, private member, eereed, JMatthews

Add to favorites

Related tags

19th century (10) 20th century (46) aesthetics (13) agrarian (11) agrarianism (11) American (28) American literature (54) American poetry (26) anthology (223) collection (15) critical theory (29) criticism (46) English (18) English poetry (18) essays (41) fiction (26) form: poetry (14) history (20) humor (16) Library of America (21) literary criticism (92) literary theory (31) literature (74) LOA (16) non-fiction (49) philosophy (49) poems (21) poetry (686) poetry anthology (34) reference (12) religion (15) southern (15) southern literature (10) the south (10) theory (20) to-read (52) travel (30) unread (15) work (14) world literature (11)

Events on LibraryThing Local

No events listed. (add an event)

Common Knowledge

You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.

For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.

Canonical name

Legal name

Ransom, John Crowe

Other names

Date of birth

Date of death

Burial location

Kenyon College Cemetery, Gambier, Ohio, USA

Gender

Nationality

Country (for map)

Birthplace

Pulaski, Tennessee, USA

Place of death

Gambier, Ohio, USA

Places of residence

Taylorsville, Mississippi, USA

Lewisburg, Tennessee, USA

Education

Vanderbilt University

Oxford University (Christ Church ∙ Rhodes Scholar)

Occupations

literary critic

Relationships

Tate, Allen (student)

Warren, Robert Penn (student)

Jarrell, Randall (student|friend)

Ransom, John Crowe (friend)

Lytle, Andrew (friend)

(show all 8 items)

Organizations

American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1965])

Bread Loaf School of English

(show all 6 items)

Awards and honors

Bollingen Prize (1951)

Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets (1962)

Emerson-Thoreau Medal (1968)

Agents

Short biography

Disambiguation notice

Links

Member ratings

Average:

(4.09)

0.5
1	3
1.5	2
2	5
2.5
3	21
3.5	11
4	79
4.5	11
5	62

Improve this author

Combine/separate works

Author division

John Crowe Ransom is currently considered a "single author." If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author.

Includes

John Crowe Ransom is composed of 5 names. You can examine and separate out names.

Combine with…

About | Contact | Privacy/Terms | Help/FAQs | Blog | Store | APIs | TinyCat | Legacy Libraries | Early Reviewers | Common Knowledge | 139,687,491 books! | Top bar: Always visible

Copyright LibraryThing and/or members of LibraryThing, authors, publishers, libraries, cover designers, Amazon, Bol, Bruna, etc. | static: /