John Crowe Ransom, who lived from 1888 to 1974, was an American educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, essayist and editor. He is considered 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, and he was highly respected as a teacher and mentor to a generation of accomplished students. He was also a prize-winning poet and essayist, and he was nominated for the 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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April 30, 1888, July 3, 1974
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was an American educator
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was an American educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, essayist and editor.
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prize-winning poet and essayist
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alongside eleven other Southern Agrarians, he published the conservative, Agrarian manifesto
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Poeta e critico statunitense
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