John Crowe Ransom

John Crowe Ransom (April 30, 1888, Pulaski, Tennessee – July 3, 1974, Gambier, Ohio) was an American poet, essayist, magazine editor, and professor.

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    “Not to these shores she came! this other Thrace,
    Environ barbarous to the royal Attic;
    How could her delicate dirge run democratic,
    Delivered in a cloudless boundless public place
    To an inordinate race?”
    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

    “Am I making myself clear, boys?”
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    “It was a transmogrifying bee
    Came droning down on Chucky’s old bald head
    And sat and put the poison. It scarcely bled,”
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    “Alimony—The ransom that the happy pay to the devil.”
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