John Crowe Ransom
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John Crowe Ransom 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
John Crowe Ransom at Kenyon College in 1941. Photo by Robie Macauley.
John Crowe Ransom with Robie Macauley (left) at the Kenyon Review in 1959. Photo by Thomas Greenslade.
Allen Tate
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John Orley Allen Tate, known professionally as Allen Tate, was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and poet laureate from 1943 to 1944. Among his best known works are the poems "Ode to the
John Crowe Ransom
…of the Fugitives, a Southern literary group of sixteen writers that functioned primarily as a kind of poetry workshop and included Donald Davidson, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren. Under their influence, Ransom, whose first interest had been philosophy (specifically John Dewey and American pragmatism) began…
John Orley Allen Tate