Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every other Saturday night, a little circle of up-&-coming poets got together in a Nashville parlor to bandy verses. The natural leader of the group was a courtly young (33) instructor of English at Vanderbilt University, John Crowe Ransom. Allen Tate, who was one of that group in the early '20s, has said: "There was never so much talent, knowledge and character accidentally brought together in one American place in our time." Some of them: Robert Penn Warren, Laura Riding, Donald Davidson, Merrill Moore...
Remembered Exile. All the Fugitives except Davidson have long since fled Vanderbilt and the South, but some are still favorably remembered-and particularly John Crowe Ransom. Last week Ransom, now a professor at Ohio's little Kenyon College (and editor of the Kenyon Review), celebrated his 60th birthday. In his honor, the Sewanee Review, the oldest of U.S. literary quarterlies, has devoted its entire forthcoming summer number to an estimate of Ransom as poet, critic and teacher...
Dogmatic Slumber. At 60, Ransom is a small, gentle but formidably self-possessed figure, with a silvery forelock clapped over his right temple, and deepsunk eyes. His accent is still softly Tennessean, his manner a little like a family doctor...
...itinerant Methodist preacher, John Ransom was born and raised in Tennessee, educated at Vanderbilt and Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar). After a dismal year as a prep-school Latin teacher, he taught English at Vanderbilt (with time out for World War I) for 23 years. Until the Fugitives woke him from his "dogmatic slumber," Ransom was a conventional teacher who took few pains to inspire his students. The bumptious crop of younger Fugitives stimulated him both as poet and teacher. Ransom, say his admirers in the Sewanee Review, did not try to dominate; he attained more enduring effects...
...before a Communist bar of justice, and if the accused did not agree to a 'reasonable' solution, then the jury would be asked to pronounce the guilt of the West. Europe's hopes of peace, two years ago kidnaped by the Kremlin, would be offered for ransom -cut rate. A special sale, possibly advertised with the promise that the Cominform was selling its whole stock, again going out of business...