...George Core Selected Essays of John Crowe Ransom . Edited by Young Thomas Daniel Hindle John . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1984 . Pp. 354 . $30.00 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 205 In general, Mr. Bloom may be seen...

...George Core Gentleman in a Dustcoat: A Biography of John Crowe Ransom . By Young Thomas Daniel . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1976 . Pp. xxvi , 528 . Illustrations. $32.50 , pb $8.95 . Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 258 The South Atlantic...

...Irvin Ehrenpreis The Poetry of John Crowe Ransom . By Williams Miller . New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press , 1972 . Pp. 125 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Book Reviews 169 The Poetry of John Crowe Ransom. By Miller Williams. New...

...William B. Hamilton William Johnson’s Natchez: The Ante-bellum Diary of a Free Negro . Edited by Hogan William Ransom Davis Edwin Adams . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1951 . Source Studies in Southern History, Number 1 . Pp. xiii , 812 . $10.00...

...H. K. Russell University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers. No. 16, Recent American Poetry . By Cambon Glauco . No. 17, Edwin Arlington Robinson . By Coxe Louis . No. 18, John Crowe Ransom . By Stewart John L. . No. 19, Benjamin Franklin...

...Robert Lee Flowers Copyright © 1905 by Duke University Press 1905 Matthew Whitaker Ransom: A Senator of the Old Regime By Robert Lee Flowers, Professor of Mathematics in Trinity College When Matthew Whitaker Ransom died at his home in North­ ampton county, North Carolina, a few months ago...

...Helen Bevington American Poetry at Mid-Century . By Ransom John Crowe Schwartz Delmore Wheelock John Hall . Lectures Presented Under the Auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund . Washington : The Library of Congress , 1958 . Pp. 49 . $.25...

...Robert D. Jacobs John Crowe Ransom: Critical Essays and a Bibliography . Edited by Young Thomas Daniel . Baton Rouge : University of Louisiana Press , 1968 . Pp. 290 . $8.50 . Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 Book Reviews 279 John Crowe Ransom: Critical Essays...

... decade in Paris (1840) perhaps deserve particular acclaim for their thoroughness and clarity. DUKE UNIVERSITY HERMAN SALINGER The Fugitives: A Critical Account. By John M. Bradbury. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1958. Pp. xiv, 300. $5.00. Can the Vanderbilt Fugitives John Crowe Ransom...

... with Ransom about The Waste Land3 until the end of the Agrarian movement (about 1938). Tate s persona then had a consistently irritating effect on peo­ ple, especially those of a liberal persuasion. As an example, one may cite a reply of Sidney Hook to The Present Function of Criticism in 1941...

... two issues presented a startling array of pseudonyms such names as Marpha and Henry Feathertop thus suggesting to several New York critics that all of the poems were written by John Crowe Ransom. Within the first year, South­ ern reviewers, troubled about a cryptic editorial, nervously wondered...

... cousin Basil Ransom with his seductive male supremacist line. Verena s two suitors meet her for the first time when they attend a motley gathering of feminists in Boston s seedy South End. She is the principal speaker for the evening, a gifted girl with flame-red hair, who strikes Ransom as an odd...

... in the most obscure manner on ideas from which the greatest possible amount of subject matter had been ex­ tracted. In 1930, the man who had been teacher, main source of ideas and inspiration of the group, John Crowe Ransom, published a most interesting argument for belief in the irrational, inscrutable God...

.... And further, for Leavis the argu­ ment of the poem has in itself little merit. It has a poverty of interest. Another poet-critic, John Crowe Ransom, unlike Eliot, not only has been concerned with the meaning of Paradise Lost but has cen­ tered his discussion of the poem on the meaning. This study Brooks has...

... acknowledges, is very helpful in establishing biographical and bibliographical back­ ground. However, her sympathies are so strong, her bias so apparent, that an even partially objective assessment and appreciation of Ransom, Tate, Warren, et al. seems to have been out of the question. Bradbury is more...

... to shape a representative, portable, and reasonably priced selection of John Crowe Ransom s essays. They wisely chose the theme that engaged Ransom s intellect most profoundly and for the longest time the nature of poetry. Hence this fresh selection presents many essays in which Ransom explores poetry s...

... by Duke University Press. Celine s letters published by special authorization of copyright owner Editions Gallimard and with the per­ mission of the Estate of Celine and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin. Letters from Little, Brown personnel published...

...David K. Kirby The Novel of Manners in America . By Tuttleton James W. . Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press , 1972 . Pp. [ xvi ], 304 . $10.00 . Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Book Reviews 169 The Poetry of John Crowe Ransom. By Miller...

... to Tennessee from studies at Oxford and joined the Agrarian Group. His good friend and former teacher at Vanderbilt, John Crowe Ransom, dominated the thinking of that group, which included Allen Tate, Donald Davidson, and Andrew N. Lytle among its members. Ransom had managed to communicate something of his own...

... deserve particular acclaim for their thoroughness and clarity. DUKE UNIVERSITY HERMAN SALINGER The Fugitives: A Critical Account. By John M. Bradbury. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1958. Pp. xiv, 300. $5.00. Can the Vanderbilt Fugitives John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren...