John Crowe Ransom

Selected Poems

Selected poems by a modernist poet known for formal precision and moral seriousness

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John Crowe Ransom
John Crowe Ransom

American poet and founder of the New Criticism who wrote a small but influential body of ironic, formally precise poems. Chills and Fever and Two Gentlemen in Bonds are his major collections.

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