John Crowe Ransom
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John Crowe Ransom at Kenyon College in 1941. Photo by Robie Macauley.
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April 30, 1888 Pulaski, Tennessee |
| Died | July 3, 1974 (aged 86) Gambier, Ohio |
| Resting place | Kenyon College Cemetery, Gambier, Ohio |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Vanderbilt, Oxford Universities |
| Occupation | Educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, essayist |
| Employer | Kenyon College |
| Known for | New Criticism school of literary criticism |
| Partner(s) | Robb Reavill |
| Awards | Rhodes Scholarship, Bollingen Prize for Poetry, National Book Award |
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.
John Crowe Ransom was born on April 30, 1888 in Pulaski, Tennessee. His father, John James Ransom (1853–1934) was a Methodist minister. His mother was Sara Ella (Crowe) Ransom (1859–1947). He had two sisters, Annie Phillips and Ella Irene, and one brother, Richard. He grew up in Spring Hill, Franklin, Springfield, and Nashville, Tennessee. He was home schooled until age ten. From 1899 to 1903, he attended the Bowen School, a public school whose headmaster was Vanderbilt alumnus Angus Gordon Bowen.
He entered Vanderbilt University in Nashville at the age of fifteen, graduating first in his class in 1909. His philosophy professor was Collins Denny, later a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Ransom interrupted his studies for two years to teach sixth and seventh grades at the Taylorsville High School in Taylorsville, Mississippi, followed by teaching Latin and Greek at the Haynes-McLean School in Lewisburg, Tennessee. After teaching one more year in Lewisburg, he was selected as a Rhodes Scholar. He attended Christ Church, Oxford, 1910–13, where he read Greats.
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