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RANSOM, JOHN CROWE, 1888-1974
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INTRODUCTION
This article review about John Crowe Ransom introduces some of his achievements. John Crowe Ransom demonstrated an accomplishment that set him apart from the population during his time period. Crowe's achievements were observable and he was a significant contributor to the new criticismmovement. In addition, he could be considered as one of the authors who bridged modernism and post realism. Crowe's works received admiration, on the contrary critics disagree especially the poem “Bells for John Whiteside Daughter.”

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INTRODUCTION
This article review about John Crowe Ransom introduces some of his achievements. John Crowe Ransom demonstrated an accomplishment that set him apart from the population during his time period. Crowe's achievements were observable and he was a significant contributor to the new criticismmovement. In addition, he could be considered as one of the authors who bridged modernism and post realism. Crowe's works received admiration, on the contrary critics disagree especially the poem “Bells for John Whiteside Daughter.”
Vivienne Koh though described the work as “delicately turned elegy, suffused with affectionate humor” (Koch, V., p.11). One may view this as thoughtful and caring evaluation because the message of the poem has not been drastically delivered as if the Ransom was delivering a poem of grief in more subtle manner. However, Koh indicated that Ransom was “intruding into the child’s own universe of geese and grass” (p.11) which suggests that Ransom was not only heartless but also possessive. In addition, Kohs’ portrayal appears to be an illustration of one who experienced grief and was able to accept that by virtue, grief is life. Therefore human should just deal when grievous situation arises. However, Fowler suggests that Kohs “statement is true, but superficial” (Fowler, 1). In opposition, Fowler implies that Kohs has not fully understood the poems’ meaning and perhaps has ignored its true message.
Works Cited
Fowler, Douglas. "Ransom's Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter." Explicator 52.2 (1994): 99.
Koch, Vivienne. "The Achievement of John Crowe Ransom." The Sewanee Review 58.2 (1950): 227-61.
Poetry Database. EBSCO. Web. 9 Apr.2010.
Ransom, John Crowe, 1888-1974.
Ransom, John Crowe, (1888–1974). "Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter." Columbia Granger's Poetry Database (n.d.): Columbia Granger's
Poetry Database. EBSCO. Web. 9 Apr.2010.
Fowler, Douglas. "Ransom's Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter." Explicator 52.2 (1994): 99.
Warren, Robert Penn. “John Crowe Ransom: A Study in Irony.” Virginia quarterly Review II (1935): 8.
Koch, Vivienne. "The Achievement of John Crowe Ransom." The Sewanee Review 58.2 (1950): 227-61.

This article review about John Crowe Ransom introduces some of his achievements. John Crowe Ransom demonstrated an accomplishment that set him apart from the population during his time period. Crowe's achievements were observable and he was a significant contributor to the new criticismmovement. In addition, he could be considered as one of the authors who bridged modernism and post realism. Crowe's works received admiration, on the contrary critics disagree especially the poem “Bells for John Whiteside Daughter.”
BIOGRAPHY
Methodist minister. RansomLooking at Ransom's educational background, he was home-schooled of 15. He attended for two years,Ransom took a and high school, andschool. He then returned Vanderbilt for his finalthe remaining two years,years graduating first December 22, 1920; they stayed together until his death.1920. The couple from various infirmities, whichinfirmities. It gradually led (Ransom, p1). Ransom widowed his wife of more than fifty four years.
OVERVIEW and ACHIEVEMENTS
In his career, he became well known and gained reputation from two of his works,

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BIOGRAPHY
John Crowe Ransom was born on April 30, 1888; in Pulaski Tennessee. He was the third of four children of Ella Ransom and John James Ransom, a Methodist minister. Ransom was home-schooled until age ten and was admitted to Vanderbilt University at the age of 15. He attended for two years, took a two-year hiatus to teach grammar school and high school, and then returned to Vanderbilt for his final two years, graduating first in his class in 1909. However, he stopped for a year, and then attended at Oxford University's Christ Church College as a Rhodes Scholar from 1910 to 1913.

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Lying so primly propped.
Coinciding with line twelve are lines nineteen and twenty. The little girl just like every human beings are destine to face her final battle, “To say we are vexed at her brown study, Lying so primly propped,” by virtue, she was going back to earth and turn to dust.
SOME CRITICSCRITICS EVALUATION of:
John Crowe Ransom’s “Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter” poem has encounter criticism by evaluators. Several critics studied the poem implications that are being portrayed to the readers. The poem is viewed as one complicated work and has not established its own place of recognition. For example, Douglas Fowler writes that “commentators seem to have had difficulty describing in the nature of the pact’s achievement” (p.1). Fowler is clearly stating that Ransom has not been able to obtain such recognition which he perhaps expected to achieve from this poem. Other critics have also commented some negatives in this work.
In Robert Peen Warren (98) evaluation, he viewed the work as a poem of grief or sad feelings. Warren writes that the “Simple grief is not the content of the primary statement” (p.8), in which he implies that one, may ignore any sign of grief of psychological discomfort when reading this poem. Grief is not what the poem is about and therefore, if a reader does not detach such feelings and emotion when reading, an unfortunate thing would happen, misunderstanding the message its trying to convey. Fowler though completely disagrees with Warren. Fowler writes, “It is precisely a statement of grief that readers have received the poem for seventy years” (1) in which Fowler clearly suggest that there is no escaping on the meaning of the poem. Ransom created a poem of grief that supposedly has been haunting poem readers in the last seventy years, in which, he may not even have been aware of such portrayal. Fowler clearly stated that one may not read the poem with a mere feeling of sadness, but with grief. Evidently, the two evaluators have opposing view on Ransom’s “Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter.”
Ransom, John Crowe, 1888-1974.
Ransom, John Crowe, (1888–1974). "Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter." Columbia Granger's Poetry Database (n.d.): Columbia Granger's
Web. 9 Apr. 2010.Apr.2010.
Fowler, Douglas. "Ransom's Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter." Explicator 52.2 (1994): 99.
Warren, Robert Penn. “John Crowe Ransom: A Study in Irony.” Virginia quarterly Review II (1935): 8.

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INTRODUCTION
This review of John Crowe Ransom is derived from four sources which evaluated and analyzed his works. To