“I hate a professional poet. I know people who have ruined themselves by being professional poets, because they end up imitating themselves.”
About John Crowe Ransom
30 April 1888–3 July 1974
John Crowe Ransom stood at the crossroads of American poetry and criticism in the twentieth century, a figure whose influence extended far beyond the elegant verses he composed. Born on April 30, 1888, in Pulaski, Tennessee, he would become the architect of a critical revolution, the mentor to some of America's finest…