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John Crowe Ransom was an American educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, essayist and editor. He is considered to be 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. Highly respected as a teacher and mentor to a generation of accomplished students, he also was a prize-winning poet and essayist. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. April 1888 – 3. July 1974
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Famous John Crowe Ransom Quotes

“For I could tell you a story which is true;
I know a lady with a terrible tongue,
Blear eyes fallen from blue,
All her perfections tarnished—and yet it is not long
Since she was lovelier than any of you.”

John Crowe Ransom

"Blue Girls", line 13, from Two Gentlemen in Bonds (1927).

“And weeping fast as she had breath
Janet implored us, "Wake her from her sleep!"
And would not be instructed in how deep
Was the forgetful kingdom of death.”

John Crowe Ransom

"Janet Waking", line 25, from Two Gentlemen in Bonds (1927).

“Here lies a lady of beauty and high degree.
Of chills and fever she died, of fever and chills,
The delight of her husbands, her aunts, an infant of three,
And of medicos marveling sweetly on her ills.”

John Crowe Ransom

"Here Lies a Lady", line 1.
Chills and Fevers (1924)

“Two evils, monstrous either one apart,
Possessed me, and were long and loath at going:
A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart,
And in the wood the furious winter blowing.”

John Crowe Ransom

"Winter Remembered", line 1.
Chills and Fevers (1924)

“And a wandering beauty is a blade out of its scabbard.
You know how dangerous, gentlemen of threescore?
May you know it yet ten more.”

John Crowe Ransom

"Judith of Bethulia", line 4.
Chills and Fevers (1924)

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