The Kenyon Review
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The Kenyon Review is a 501 nonprofit literary arts organization housed on the Kenyon College campus in Gambier, Ohio. Founded in 1939, The Review publishes a quarterly journal of fiction, poetry, essa
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John Crowe Ransom (right) with Robie Macauley as he prepares to become editor of The Kenyon Review in 1959.
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
The Kenyon Review
…in 1939 at Kenyon College through the efforts of poet Roberta Teale Swartz and college president Gordon Keith Chalmers, who recruited poet and critic John Crowe Ransom as the magazine’s founding editor. Ransom served as editor until 1959, during which time the journal became a major venue for literary criticism and…
John Crowe Ransom at Kenyon College in 1941. Photo by Robie Macauley.