John Crowe Ransom

John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974) was a teacher, poet, founder of the Kenyon Review, and a father of the New Criticism. From 1937 to 1959, Ransom served as a professor at Kenyon College and his distinguished students included Donald Davidson, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Andrew Lytle, Allen Tate, Peter Taylor, Robert Penn Warren, and E. L. Doctorow.

Published in VQR

• Criticism, Inc., Autumn 1937
• Criticism, Inc, Autumn 1937
• Art and Mr. Santayana, Summer 1937
• What Does the South Want?, Spring 1936
• The Psychologist Looks at Poetry, Autumn 1935
• Modern with the Southern Accent, Spring 1935