I lived from 1888-1974. I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.
I was influenced by poet Allen Tate.
John Crowe Ransom was an American poet, essayist, and social commentator from Pulaski, Tennessee.
Ransom was born on April 30, 1888 in Pulaski, Tennessee. He was an American poet, essayist, social and political theorist, man of letters, and academic.
Ransom was the third of four children of a Methodist minister. His family was highly literate, although perhaps not unusually so given that his father was a clergyman. As a child, he read his family's library and engaged his father in passionate discussions. He wrote many books and poems in his life. In 1937 Ransom accepted a position at Kenyon College in Ohio. He was the founding editor of the Kenyon Review until he retired from Kenyon in 1959. Ransom has few peers among 20th century American university teachers of humanities; his distinguished students include Donald Davidson, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Andrew Lytle, Allen Tate, Peter Taylor, Robert Penn Warren, and Richard M. Weaver. In 1966, Ransom was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He passed away on July 3, 1974, Gambier, Ohio. His ashes are buried behind the Chalmers Library at Kenyon College.
Ransom was born on April 30, 1888 in Pulaski, Tennessee. He was an American poet, essayist, social and political theorist, man of letters, and academic.
Ransom was the third of four children of a Methodist minister. His family was highly literate, although perhaps not unusually so given that his father was a clergyman. As a child, he read his family's library and engaged his father in passionate discussions. He wrote many books and poems in his life. In 1937 Ransom accepted a position at Kenyon College in Ohio. He was the founding editor of the Kenyon Review until he retired from Kenyon in 1959. Ransom has few peers among 20th century American university teachers of humanities; his distinguished students include Donald Davidson, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Andrew Lytle, Allen Tate, Peter Taylor, Robert Penn Warren, and Richard M. Weaver. In 1966, Ransom was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He passed away on July 3, 1974, Gambier, Ohio. His ashes are buried behind the Chalmers Library at Kenyon College.
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