“The poet wishes to defend his object’s existence against its enemies, and the critic wishes to know what he is doing, and how.”
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…