Selected Poems

John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974) was an American poet, critic, and educator who founded the New Criticism school of literary criticism and was a key figure in the Fugitives and Southern Agrarians movements. His most notable works include the poetry collections Poems About God (1919), Chills and Fever (1924), and Selected Poems (1963; National Book Award, 1964), as well as influential criticism such as The New Criticism (1941) and The World's Body (1938). He received the Bollingen Prize for Poetry (1951) and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973.