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By the Riverside

  • Shows how he uses religion in his poetry
  • part of his book Poems About God
  • Shows how he uses philosophy

John Whiteside's Daughter

Poems

  • focuses on someone's death or death in general
  • makes people realize that they are mortal
  • shows how quickly death can really happen even to the liveliest person

Bells For John Whiteside's Daughter

By the Riverside

John Crowe Ransom

Personal Life

  • Taught 6th and 7th grade at a high school in MS
  • Graduated Vanderbilt 1909 head of class Studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford 1910-1913
  • Served in WWI in France as artillery officer
  • Became professor at Vanderbilt
  • Leader of a Southern literary group of 16 writers called the "Fugitives"
  • Inspired him to start poetry
  • Born April 30, 1888 in Pulaski, TN
  • Born to Methodist minister
  • Raised in a strongly religious but open-minded house
  • 3rd of 4 kids
  • Home schooled until 10
  • Bowen School in Nashville
  • Went to Vanderbilt University in Nashville at 15

Personal Life

  • First book (Poems About God) published with recommendation from Robert Frost
  • Professor at Kenyon College
  • Retired from Kenyon in 1959
  • Founded the Kenyon Review
  • Married Robb Reavill in 1920
  • Had 3 kids
  • Died in his sleep at his house on the Kenyon campus on July 3, 1974

John Crowe Ransom

By: Kelly Shea and Haleigh Hall

Common Themes

  • Many poems focused on tradition, ritual, and myth
  • In his Poems About God (1919), he has experiences and places from his childhood in Tennessee
  • Poems About God introduced many themes he uses later on like the separation of past and present, man and nature, and search for wholeness
  • Southern agrarian settings
  • A lot of his work was like Robert Frost

Works Cited

<http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/ransom/life.htm>.

https://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/findingaids/ransomjc.pdf

<http://www.poemhunter.com/john-crowe-ransom/poems/>.

<http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/

john-crowe-ransom>.

<http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/john-crowe-ransom>.

http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides4/Bellsfor.html

http://www.humanities360.com/index.php/poetry-analysis-by-the-riverside-by-john-crowe-ransom-7212/

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