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God Without Thunder

Ransom, John Crowe

Shoe String Pr Inc

The accomplished poet and scholar John Crowe Ransom made profound contributions to twentieth-century American literature. As a teacher at Vanderbilt University he was also a leading member of the Southern Agrarian movement and a contributor to the movement's manifesto I'll Take My Stand. Ransom's Land! is a previously unpublished work that unites Ransom's poetic sensibilities with an examination of economics at the height of the Great Depression. Politically charged with Ransom's aesthetic beliefs about literature and his agrarian interpretation of economics, Land! was long thought to have been burned by its author after he failed to find a publisher. Thankfully, the manuscript was discovered, and we are now able to read this unique and interesting contribution to the Southern Agrarian revival. After the publication of I'll Take My Stand in 1930, Ransom, who provided the book's Statement of Principles in addition to its lead essay, became convinced that the book had not adequately proposed an economic alternative to Northern industrialism, which had fairly obliterated the Southern way of life. Land! was Ransom's attempt to fill this gap. In it he presents the weaknesses inherent in capitalism and argues convincingly that socialism is not only an inadequate alternative but inimical to American sensibilities. He proposes instead that agrarianism, which could flourish alongside capitalism, would relieve the problems of unemployment and the "permanently unemployed." In particular, he argues that what he calls the "amphibian farmer"―who can survive in both a monetary and a non-monetary economy― would never, so long as he relied on himself for necessities, have to fear unemployment. America, Ransom claims, is unique in offering this opportunity because, unlike in European countries, land is plentiful.

Land!: The Case for an Agrarian Economy

Business & Money

Economics

University of Notre Dame Press

When John Crowe Ransom's Selected Poems was given the 1964 National Book Award in Poetry, the citation read: "John Crowe Ransom is a poet whose unmistakable voice -- ironic, wayward, gentle and infallibly human -- has registered itself for many years in poetry that is an ornament to American letters. His Selected Poems may be compared, in number, to the poems of Andrew Marvell, and are likely to be as imperishable." This third edition contains poems from Ransom's earlier volumes, Poems about God, Chills and Fever, and Two Gentlemen in Bonds, which he has revised and added to this collection. The final section is made up of eight "pairings" -- original texts of poems side by side with later revisions. In each instance Ransom provides an informal commentary, pinpointing his dissatisfaction with the old version and analyzing the creative impulse (and technical means) that shaped the new -- an unusual revelation of the poet at work. This is an invaluable, indeed unique, collection by a distinguished poet who has long occupied an important place in contemporary American poetry.John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) was an educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, essayist and editor. He is considered to be a founder of the New Criticism and 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.

Selected Poems

KNOPF

A collection of poems which cover a wide range of themes and moods, and are characterized by subtle irony and a sympathetic understanding of human nature

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

The World's Body

Baton Rouge, LA Louisiana Stat

Selected Essays of John Crowe Ransom (Southern Literary Studies)

Louisiana State Univ Pr

Gathers correspondence between the American poet and critic, and his family, fellow poets and scholars, and friends

Selected Letters of John Crowe Ransom (Southern Literary Studies)

Biographies & Memoirs

The Complete Poems contains every poem that John Crowe Ransom wrote, including his three books―Poems About God, Chills and Fever, and Two Gentlemen in Bonds―as well as the additional poems that appeared in the three editions of his Selected Poems. The volume also collects poems that were published only in newspapers and magazines, as well as a handful of poems that Ransom left in manuscript at the time of his death. This variorum edition establishes the definitive text of each poem, collating Ransom’s elaborate revisions, which he carried out throughout his lifetime. Detailed annotations identify sources, parse obscure allusions, and highlight the archaic language central to Ransom’s poetic technique. Edited by Ashby Bland Crowder, this volume constitutes an authoritative scholarly edition of Ransom’s poetry, providing an essential resource for the study of twentieth-century American literature.

The Complete Poems

LSU Press

The New Criticism

Praeger

Poetry. Edited by Ben Mazer. The first-ever complete edition of the poems of John Crowe Ransom, restoring to the world – in the name not of mercy but of justice – a great many poems that he himself had once (and quite rightly) judged perfectly worthy of publication, poems that, joining now his select poems, will enjoy a renaissance.

The Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom

Poetry

Un-Gyve Press

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God Without Thunder

Land!: The Case for an Agrarian Economy

Selected Poems

Selected Poems

The World's Body

Selected Essays of John Crowe Ransom (Southern Literary Studies)

Selected Letters of John Crowe Ransom (Southern Literary Studies)

The Complete Poems

The New Criticism

The Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom