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chris_navin: Wednesday Poem-John Crowe Ransom

Kulambq: 'I dip my hat to Chaucer, Swilling soup from his saucer. And to Master Shakespeare Who wrote big on small beer. The abstemious Wordsworth Subsisted on a curd’s worth, But a slick one was Tennyson, Putting gravy on his venison.' ~ John Crowe Ransom, 'Survey of Literature'

welfordwrites: Necrological, a poem by John Crowe Ransom. A reflection on life and death based on the aftermath of a medieval battle.

welfordwrites: Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter, a poem by John Crowe Ransom. An unsentimental reaction to the death of a young child.

Robinhemley: At Kenyon College (where I just gave a reading last night) there’s a marker commemorating John Crowe Ransom, influential editor of The Kenyon Review. He loved my mother’s stories and thought she was among the best writers of her generation.

OrganicPeoplePR: JOHN CROWE RANSOM POET, CRITIC, FOUNDER Kenyon Review. (April 30, 1888- July 3, 1974.)

HillCoRev: "In our period things have suffered the extreme of humiliation, and come to be generally disesteemed as simply the objects for our science to possess and for ourselves to use." John Crowe Ransom, God Without Thunder (1930)

welfordwrites: Necrological, a poem by John Crowe Ransom. A reflection on life and death based on the aftermath of a medieval battle. Click the link!

b2l_Literature: John Crowe Ransom - American Writers 18 was first published in 1962. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnes...

dajmeyer: John Crowe Ransom, Winter remembered

deannamascle: Winter Remembered by John Crowe Ransom - Poems |

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djcontraption: ..hardly a wind could enter, I glowed like them, the simple burning sticks, Far from my cause, my proper heat, my center. Better to walk forth in the murderous air & wash my wound in the snows; that would be healing fr—Winter Remembered John Crowe Ransom

peterdamianent1: Winter Remembered - John Crowe Ransom Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Possessed me, and were long and loath at going: A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart, And in the wood the furious winter blowing. Think not, when fire was bright...

HarthouseJames: "Winter Remembered" by John Crowe Ransom A sonnet grounded in loss and "absence" and nature . . .

MarshallSnyde19: "But we moderns are impatient and destructive." John Crowe Ransom.

welfordwrites: Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter, a poem by John Crowe Ransom. An unsentimental reaction to the death of a young child.

Wedgetweets: Seamus Heaney notes that we are much more familiar with the literary and intellectual world of ancient Greece or Rome than 8th century England. A little later he mentions how he was influenced by sources like Edmund Spencer and even John Crowe Ransom for his Beowulf translation.

AmyClukey: Twitter hive mind, I'm looking for texts by African American or Black diasporic authors who comment directly on the southern Agrarians as a group or individually (Allen Tate, Clench Brooks, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, etc.). Suggestions?

welfordwrites: Necrological, a poem by John Crowe Ransom. A reflection on life and death based on the aftermath of a medieval battle. Click the link!

welfordwrites: Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter, a poem by John Crowe Ransom. An unsentimental reaction to the death of a young child. Click the link!

b2l_History: The accomplished poet and scholar John Crowe Ransom made profound contributions to twentieth-century American literature. As a teacher at Vanderbilt University he was also a leading member of the Southern Agrarian movement and a contributor...

welfordwrites: Necrological, a poem by John Crowe Ransom. A reflection on life and death based on the aftermath of a medieval battle. Click the link!

Chase_Steely: John Crowe Ransom "Antique Harvesters" We pluck the spindling ears and gather the corn. One spot has special yield? "On this spot stood Heroes and drenched it with their only blood." And talk meets talk, as echoes from the horn Of the hunter— echoes are the old men's arts,

ManOfLaBook: Fun Facts Friday: John Crowe Ransom

welfordwrites: Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter, a poem by John Crowe Ransom. An unsentimental reaction to the death of a young child. Click the link!

keenessays: It doesnt matter what poem you choose from the list but if it does matter to you then you can choose the poem by “putting in the seed” by john crowe ransom

welfordwrites: Necrological, a poem by John Crowe Ransom. A reflection on life and death based on the aftermath of a medieval battle. Click the link!

UNDPress: What could relieve the problems of unemployment? In LAND! John Crowe Ransom proposes that agrarianism could flourish alongside capitalism, being just the solution.

samhaselby: We need a revival of the Southern Agrarians, Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, and more, for their criticisms of capitalism. Much has been lost by the new history of capitalism turning everything in American history into capitalism.

welfordwrites: Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter, a poem by John Crowe Ransom. An unsentimental reaction to the death of a young child. Click the link!

Chase_Steely: "Angry as wasp-music" John Crowe Ransom, “Antique Harvesters”

jlorts: "God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No belly and no bowels, Only consonants and vowels." John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)

fruitofthe19th: The quote is John Crowe Ransom

Chase_Steely: "Affections, and long memories, attach to the ancient bowers of life in the provinces; but they will not attach to what is always changing." John Crowe Ransom

Gromaticus2: There are days where I’m still dumbfounded by the fact that that I took a number of courses in college from a professor who studied at Kenyon under John Crowe Ransom

acrimonyand: It is the European intention to live materially along the inherited line of least resistance, in order to put the surplus of energy into the free life of the mind. — John Crowe Ransom

malviure: 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.

welfordwrites: Necrological, a poem by John Crowe Ransom. A reflection on life and death based on the aftermath of a medieval battle. Click the link!

Ishmaelphineas: What John Crowe Ransom writes of "Industrialism" is true of "Science": "it is rightfully a menial, of almost miraculous cunning, but no intelligence; it needs to be strongly governed, or it will destroy the economy of the household".

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welfordwrites: Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter, a poem by John Crowe Ransom. An unsentimental reaction to the death of a young child. Click the link!

Sean_Kilpatrick: Great lovers lie in Hell, the stubborn ones Infatuate of the flesh upon the bones; Stuprate, they rend each other when they kiss, The pieces kiss again, no end to this. John Crowe Ransom

welfordwrites: Necrological, a poem by John Crowe Ransom. A reflection on life and death based on the aftermath of a medieval battle. Click the link!

theoderi: One of the twelve Southern Agrarians, John Crowe Ransom, wrote a book called "God Without Thunder", a self-professed "unorthodox defense of Orthodoxy" in 1930. What level of synchronicity is this?

ryanaboyd: John Crowe Ransom wrote some heaters

poemtoday: Amy Key and John Crowe Ransom ....

ArchieG1946: “Dead Boy,” by John Crowe Ransom.

welfordwrites: Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter, a poem by John Crowe Ransom. An unsentimental reaction to the death of a young child. Click the link!

profitratedown: Salty as can be, but here is a guy who has range: loves Kafka and Updike, Rimbaud and John Crowe Ransom (!), Proust and the poems of Emerson....

BookRarities: 1941 book first edition THE NEW CRITICISM by JOHN CROWE RANSOM first printing/dj

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welfordwrites: Necrological, a poem by John Crowe Ransom. A reflection on life and death based on the aftermath of a medieval battle. Click the link!

radical__middle: JOHN CROWE RANSOM, NOBLY BLUNDERING "Criticism must become more scientific, or precise and systematic, and this means that it must be developed by by the collective and sustained efforts of learned persons...." "Criticism, Inc." (1938)

WVPitt: "...I believe there is no possible deep sense of beauty no heroism of conduct and no sublimity of religion which is not informed by the humble sense of man's precarious position in the universe universe." (2/2) -- John Crowe Ransom

RBFRealBigFacts: “Two evils, monstrous either one apart Possessed me, and we’re long and loath at going: A cry of Absence, Absence in the heart, And in the wood the furious winter blowing.” -John Crowe Ransom

welfordwrites: Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter, a poem by John Crowe Ransom. An unsentimental reaction to the death of a young child. Click the link!

VickiWinslow: Lost 3 hens today to a transmogrifying fox, and now, having secured the 3 survivors, I am feeling like Janet in the John Crowe Ransom poem. The baby chicks are blissfully unaware of the drama.

victorian_hbd: Chills and Fever (1924) - John Crowe Ransom

skydog811: About John Crowe Ransom

Book_Addict: Happy birthday to poet/writer/academic John Crowe Ransom (April 30, 1888), author of "Poems about God" (1919) et al.

pauljimerson: It’s the birthday of poet and critic John Crowe Ransom, born in Pulaski, Tennessee (1888). He founded The Kenyon Review and he was one of the most important literary critics of his time.

pauljimerson: God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand no bowels, Only consonants and vowels. John Crowe Ransom

cowboycoleridge: An evil, monstrous of itself, Possessed me, and was long and loath at going: A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart John Crowe Ransom

victorian_hbd: Two Gentlemen in Bonds (1927) - John Crowe Ransom

pauljimerson: Warren was just 16 years old when he enrolled in Vanderbilt University where his roommate was the poet Allen Tate. Warren and Tate, along with one of their professors, John Crowe Ransom, and a handful of other writers, became known as the Fugitives. Warren said:

skrichev13: Kenyon folks: Let’s just remember that we wanted to avoid renaming the moniker the Crows because John Crowe Ransom was a proponent of the Lost Cause ideology. Rooks are pretty damn close.

du_m4rtinelli: 5/8 Adopting the Crow as a moniker would be a nod to one of Kenyon’s most notorious alums, John Crowe Ransom. The crows that sit atop Ransom Hall long ago connected Kenyon to this species.

welfordwrites: Necrological, a poem by John Crowe Ransom. A reflection on life and death based on the aftermath of a medieval battle. Click the link!

at_oasis: Do not enforce the tired wolf Dragging his infected wound homeward To sit tonight with the warm children Naming the pretty kings of France. PS. - John Crowe Ransom

NewYorkSun: John Crowe Ransom was an example of a kind of American — particularly Southern — poetic sense and learnedness that nearly captured literary America from the 1930s to the 1950s. Read our poem of the day here:

WhyWherever: Our progressivists are the latest version of those pioneers who conquered the wilderness, except they are pioneering on principle, or from force of habit, and without any recollection of what pioneering was for. John Crowe Ransom, "Reconstructed but Unregenerate"

alboinusrex: The OG anti-globohomo: John Crowe Ransom, "Reconstructed but Unregenerate"

welfordwrites: Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter, a poem by John Crowe Ransom. An unsentimental reaction to the death of a young child. Click the link!

alanyliu: The lack of procedural declarations like these in "close reading" can't be explained just as a humanistic reaction against scientism, given how such early New Critics as John Crowe Ransom or Russian Formalists as Victor Shklovsky loved scientisms & technologisms.

alanyliu: For example, here's a diagram in John Crowe Ransom's book, New Criticism (1941), explaining the relation between meaning and sound in poetry.

Fascidwarf: I endorse this message. I further suggest my followers on twitter dot com go read John Crowe Ransom’s “Reconstructed but Unregenerate.”

HarthouseJames: "The Spring Has Many Silences" by Laura Riding Jackson Jackson's early work in the 1920s attracted the attention of "The Fugitives," the Vanderbilt University group of poets that included John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, and Allen Tate.

IdeasHC: "Industrialism is a program under which men, using the latest scientific paraphernalia, sacrifice comfort, leisure, and the enjoyment of life to win Pyrrhic victories from nature at points of no strategic importance," wrote John Crowe Ransom in I'll Take My Stand.

welfordwrites: Necrological, a poem by John Crowe Ransom. A reflection on life and death based on the aftermath of a medieval battle. Click the link!

alboinusrex: "Industrialism is a program under which men, using the latest scientific paraphernalia, sacrifice comfort, leisure, and the enjoyment of life to win Pyrrhic victories from nature at points of no strategic importance." -John Crowe Ransom

Fascidwarf: “It is the character of our urbanized, anti-provincial, progressive, and mobile American life that it is in a condition of eternal flux.” John Crowe Ransom

torihoover: Me: new criticism is so stupid, you can’t divorce a work from its authorial context Me seeing j* r****** tweeted again: the author is dead, long live john crowe ransom

Fascidwarf: “Industrialism, the latest form of pioneering and the worst, presently overtook the North, and in due time has now produced our present American civilization.” John Crowe Ransom

IdeasHC: "But, the later day societies have been seized – none quite so violently as our American one – with the strange idea that the human destiny is not to secure an honorable peace with nature, but to wage an unrelenting war on nature." (3/3) -John Crowe Ransom

Chase_Steely: John Crowe Ransom - Modern With The Southern Accent

PaleoPooch: It’s like John Crowe Ransom said: “Progress never defines its ultimate objective, but thrusts it’s victims at once into an infinite series.”

welfordwrites: Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter, a poem by John Crowe Ransom. An unsentimental reaction to the death of a young child. Click the link!

kjavadizadeh: My random discovery of the day is James Merrill writing out a poem by William Blake on the inside back cover of his edition of John Crowe Ransom.

juanxaviertn: When I think about what’s been done to the land & water of Maury County, it’s the scouring of the Shire. It’s John Prine’s “Paradise.” This was also the sorrow & the fear of John Crowe Ransom, & the 12.

welfordwrites: Necrological, a poem by John Crowe Ransom. A reflection on life and death based on the aftermath of a medieval battle. Click the link!

victorian_hbd: Poems about God (1919) - John Crowe Ransom

Fascidwarf: “Deracination in our Western life is the strange discipline which individuals turn upon themselves, enticed by the blandishments of such fine words as Progressive, Liberal, and Forward-Looking.” John Crowe Ransom

RecordEagle: Writing about geese in my last column reminds me, for no other reason, of John Crowe Ransom’s “Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter,” in which those animals play an important role.

welfordwrites: Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter, a poem by John Crowe Ransom. An unsentimental reaction to the death of a young child. Click the link!

juanxaviertn: Mother Maybelle Carter was the St. Clare to John Crowe Ransom’s St. Francis. She taught the agrarian gospel through song; a Foxfire hymnal. May the circle be ever unbroken.

pacificraft: Do people read John Crowe Ransom much these days? They ought to.

welfordwrites: Necrological, a poem by John Crowe Ransom. A reflection on life and death based on the aftermath of a medieval battle. Click the link!

Chase_Steely: The Dead Boy - John Crowe Ransom

thedarkhorsemag: A solstice poem, the 1st of 2. Based on a metre in a John Crowe Ransom poem I’d floating around in my head, & one by E A Robinson. “Lime” is the colour, not the substance—tho formidable John Lucas, poet-critic & owner of Shoestring Press, read it so in a review—ingeniously.



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