Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest event of the forum season was supposed to be a publlic reading by Fugitive Poets in honor of John Crowe Ransom, Kenyon College poet-critic who turned 70 earlier this year. The Fugitives wrote poetry as undergraduates at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee in the mid-Twenties, under the tutelage of Ransom, then a young member of the school's faculty. After Ransom's moving reading the night before, four other Fugitives and two guests poets read from their poetry and patted each other on the back. After a while, the latter activity exceeded the former, and when the group...
...found time for the nonsocial side of summer Harvard. Regular College students studied the details of the new Honors Program Fund, established by President Pusey and sustained by a $100,000 gift from the Procter and Gamble Corporation. Of noncurricular interest were the readings by Robert Lowell, John Crowe Ransom, and other poets of the Fugitive group...
...Ransom himself gave a reading in Sanders Theatre Thursday night which included tragic poems, nonsense poems, and a Harvard poem. He was introduced by William Y. Elliott, director of the Summer School and himself a Fugitive, who noted that Ransom "made all literature live, because it was something that he himself lived...
...Ransom then retired until the next afternoon, when he was joined by five other Fugitives and a second-generation Fugitive in Burr...
After another warm introduction, Ransom read his "Autumn Harvests," called by Tate "the finest poem ever to come out of the South...