Ransom, John Crowe (1888–1974)

US poet and critic. He published his romantic but antirhetorical verse in, for example, Poems About God (1919), Chills and Fever (1924), and Selected Verse (1947).

Born in Tennessee, Ransom was a leader of the Southern literary movement that followed World War I. As a critic and teacher he was a powerful figure in the New Criticism movement, which shaped much literary theory from the 1940s to the 1960s. He founded the respected literary magazine The Kenyon Review.