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Primary Sources

Books

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--- . Chills and Fever. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924.

--- . Grace After Meat. London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf, 1924.

--- . Two Gentlemen in Bonds. New York: Alfred A. Knopf,

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--- . God without Thunder. New York: Harcourt, Brace and

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--- , ed. I'll Take My Stand; The South and the Agrarian

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--- , et al., eds. Fuqitives: An Anthology of Verse. New

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--- . The World's Body. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,

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--- . Selected Poems. New York: Alfred A . Knopf, 1945.

--- . Selected Poems. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1947. The Kenyon Critics ed. John Crowe Ransom. Cleveland: The

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Ransom, John Crowe. Poems and Essays. New York: Vintage

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Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy. ed. John Crowe Ransom. New

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Ransom, John Crowe. Selected Poems New York: Alfred A.

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--- . Selected Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. --- . Selected Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969.

--- . Selected Essays 1941-'70. New York: A New Directions

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Essays and articles

Ransom, John Crowe. "The Future of Poetry." Fusitive 13

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--- . "The Mixed Modes." Fuqitive 4 (Mar. 1925): 28-29. --- . "Thoughts on Poetic Discontent." Fugitive 4 (June

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93-94.

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--- . "The South Defends Its Heritage." Harper's 159 (June

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--- . "Flux and Blur in Contemporary Art." Sewanee Review

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--- . "Classical and Romantic." Saturday Review of

Literature 6 (14 Sept. 1929): 125-27.

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South and the Agrarian Tradition, by Twelve

Southerners, ed. John Crowe Ransom. New York: Harper

and Bros., 1930. ix-xx.

--- . "Reconstructed But Unregenerate." I'll Take My Stand

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--- . "The State and the Land." New Republic 70 (17 Feb.

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--- . "Land1 An Answer to the Unemployment Problem."

Harper's 165 (July 1932): 216-34.

--- . "Happy Farmers." American Review 1 (Oct. 1933): 513-

35.

--- . "The Aesthetics of Regionalism." American Review 2

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--- . "Poetic Strategy." Saturday Review of Literature 12

(27 July 1935): 6.

--- . "What Does the South Want?" Virqinia Quarterly Review 12 (Apr. 1936): 180-94.

--- . "The South Is a Bulwark." Scribner's Maqazine 99 (May 1936): 299-303.

--- . "Autumn of Poetry." Southern Review 1.4 (1936): 609-

23.

--- . "Mr. Empson's Muddles." Southern Review 4 (1938-39):

323.

--- . "The Arts and the Philosophers." Kenyon Review 1

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--- . "The Aesthetic of Music." Kenyon Review 3 (Autumn

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--- . "Bright Disorder." Kenyon Review 4 (Autumn 1942):

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--- . "The Inorganic Muses." Kenyon Review 5.2 (Spring

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23.

--- . "Artists, Soldiers, Positivists.'' Kenyon Review 6.2

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--- . "Art Needs a Little Separating." Kenyon Review 6

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--- . "Poetry: 11, The Final Cause." Kenyon Review 9

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--- . "The New Criticism." Kenyon Review 10 i~all 1948):

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--- . "Symbolism: American Style." New Republic 129 (2 Nov. 1953): 18-20.

--- . "Empirics in Politics." Kenyon Review 15 (Autumn

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--- "The Concrete Universal: Observations on the

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--- . "The Strange Music of English Verse." Kenyon Review

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Ransom's Letters and Conversations

Letters

Ransom to Allen Tate, 5 Sept. 1926.

Ransom to Tate, c. 1927.

Ransom to Tate, undated, written sometime in the Spring of

1927.

Ransom to Tate, 5 ~ u l y i929.

For further reference see Selected Letters of

John Crowe Ransom. Ed. with an Introduction by Thomas

Daniel Young and George Core. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State

UP, 1985.

Conversations

Ransom in conversation with Cleanth Brooks and R.P.

Warren. See Conversations on the Craft of Poetry. Ed.

Brooks and Warren. New York, 1961.

Secondary Sources

Books

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--- , ed. The New Criticism and After. Charlottesville: UP

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--- . Gentleman in a Dustcoat : A Biography of John Crowe

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--- . An Annotated Biblioqraphy. New York and London:

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--- , ed. The History of Southern Literature. Baton Rouge:

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Reviews

Aiken, Conrad. "The Poetic Scene." Independent 118 (26

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Beatty, Richmond Croom. "John Crowe Ransom as Poet."

Sewanee Review 52 (Summer 1944): 344-66.

--- . "The Heritage of Symbolism in Modern Poetry." The - Yale Review 33 (Mar. 1947): 467-77.

Bergonzi, Bernard. "A Poem About the History of Love:

'The Equilibrists' by John Crowe Ransom." Critical

Quarterly 4.2 (Summer 1962): 127-37.

Bleifus, William. "Ransom's 'Here Lies a Lady.'"

Explicator 11 (May 1953): Item 51.

Brooks, Cleanth. "The Doric Delicacy." Sewanee Review 56

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--- . "Homage to John Crowe Ransom." Shenandoah 14.3

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Brownjohn, Alan. New Statesman 13 Feb. 1970. A Signed

Review.

Buffington, Robert. "Overlooking the Last Infirmity."

Mississippi Quarterly 30 (1977): 5-27.

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99.

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