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/