Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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French mystic poet Pierre Emmanuel and Professor John Crowe Ransom of Kenyon College will be among 58 visiting scholars from American and European universities who will teach at the 1951 session of the Harvard Summer School, Director William Yandell Elliot announced yesterday...
...Bollingen committee knew all that. Tennessee-born John Ransom, professor of poetry at Ohio's Kenyon College and editor of the Kenyon Review, has published no verse since his Selected Poems in 1945. The award, said Conrad Aiken, committee chairman, was based on Ransom's "contribution to American poetry...
...contribution that few Americans know about-whether from lack of interest or pure defensive caution. Following a modern poet up a mental slope carries real danger of getting hopelessly lost above the tree line of meaning. Lucid, logical John Ransom is not that kind of poet. Much of his poetry is as transparent as a weather report. As skillful in craft as he is slender in output, he can write movingly and hauntingly about the death of a small child, as in Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter...
...Poet Ransom does become more allusive and complex than that, but he belongs in general, with those modern American poets who seem to be more interested in talking to other people (though sometimes only to other poets) than in talking to themselves. Moreover, 62-year-old John Ransom has cast an increasingly larger shadow over three decades of U S writing history. The "ferment of his ideas in the heads of his old pupils" (a phrase Ransom applies to Aristotle) has had acknowledged results. Some of his ex-pupils: Robert Penn Warren, Robert Lowell Randall Jarrell, Allen Tate...
...Poet Ransom keeps his own ideas in ferment, too; he is seldom satisfied with what he writes. He thinks he will publish some more verse some day-"But it will not be exactly more of the same...