It became a solid pillar in the New Criticism, which was sweeping American literary culture, placing it firmly alongside Cleanth Brooks's Southern Review and John Crowe Ransom's Kenyon Review.

Hence Ransom's reputation as a poet is based on the fewer than 160 poems he wrote and published between 1916 and 1927.

The first known European settler of Houghton was named Ransom Shelden, who set up a store named Ransom's near Portage Lake, though it is unclear whether this was in the same building as the 1852 Shelden and Shafer drugs, sometimes described as " the first commercial building constructed in Houghton ," which Shelden owned with his son Ransom B.

The Bostonians ( 1886 ) is a bittersweet tragicomedy that centres on Basil Ransom, an unbending political conservative from Mississippi ; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a zealous Boston feminist ; and Verena Tarrant, a pretty protégée of Olive's in the feminist movement.

In 1963, the poet / critic and former Ransom student Randall Jarrell published an essay in which he highly praised Ransom's poetry: In John Crowe Ransom's best poems every part is subordinated to the whole, and the whole is accomplished with astonishing exactness and thoroughness.

. Ransom's poems profess their limitations so candidly, almost as a principle of style, that it is hardly necessary to say they are not poems of the largest scope or the greatest intensity.

Ransom's contribution to I'll Take My Stand is his essay " Reconstructed but Unregenerate " which starts the book and lays out the Southern Agrarians ' basic argument.

He returns to Earth about a year later and is met by Lewis and another friend: the remainder of the story is told from Ransom's point of view, with Lewis acting as interlocutor and occasional commentator.

The movement is named after John Crowe Ransom's 1941 book The New Criticism.

At some time between the second and third book, Ransom's life was further transformed radically by becoming the secret Pendragon, the latest in an unbroken chain of secret inheritors of King Arthur who, it turns out, had been watching over Britain and helping their country in various crisis points in its history-a role which is crucially important to his relationship with the reawakened wizard Merlin.

The third book, unlike the earlier two, is not told through Ransom's own eyes.

In the end, Ransom's role as a saint or prophet is enhanced by his being taken alive into Heaven ( actually, back to Venus / Perelandra ), an honour reserved only to a very small handful of particularly deserving Biblical and mythical characters.

However, it is Mayley who by sheer bad luck nearly ends up the victim of both MacGregor's and Ransom's schemes.

Ransom has few peers among 20th century American university teachers of humanities ; his distinguished students included Donald Davidson, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Andrew Lytle, Allen Tate, Peter Taylor, Robie Macauley, Robert Penn Warren, E. L. Doctorow, Cleanth Brooks, Richard M. Weaver, and Constantinos Patrides ( himself a Rhodes Scholar, who dedicated his monograph on John Milton's Lycidas to Ransom's memory ).

He was designated for assignment on June 24 upon Ransom's return from the 60-day DL, and was granted his release on July 7.

Having survived the destruction of Cordelia Ransom's ship in the previous book, Honor and her allies hide on the surface of Hades, monitoring StateSec's communications and linking with other prisoners held on the planet.

He summoned CS Major General W. H. C. Whiting's Division from Petersburg and planned a converging attack on the Union lines: Whiting would attack northward, hitting Butler's rear, while Hoke and CS General Ransom's Divisions, attacking en echelon from left to right, would drive the Federal right back from Drewry's Bluff.

At dawn on May 16, Ransom's division opened an attack on Butler's right flank, routing many units.

Accordingly, Ransom's birth has to be placed in 1899 or 1900 at the latest-assuming that he had fought only in 1918, the war's last year ; if he had already been on the Somme in 1916, he must have been born in 1897 or 1898 at the latest.

The Fugitive Group had a special interest in Modernist poetry and, under Ransom's editorship, started a short-lived but highly influential magazine, called The Fugitive, which published American Modernist poets, mainly from the South ( though they also published Northerners like Hart Crane ).

" Before this, he had published several works on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and its consequences, but his literary capacity was mediocre, his style stiff and cold, and it was his personal character rather than his reputation as a writer that earned him the confidence of the elector.

This dispute helped to establish de Pizan's reputation as a female intellectual who could assert herself effectively and defend her claims in the male-dominated literary realm.

Griswold somehow became Poe's literary executor and attempted to destroy his enemy's reputation after his death.

Wells's literary reputation declined as he spent his later years promoting causes that were rejected by most of his contemporaries.

T. S. Eliot attacked the reputation of Kubla Khan and sparked a dispute within literary criticism with his analysis of the poem in his essay " Origin and Uses of Poetry " from The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism ( 1933 ): " The way in which poetry is written is not, so far as our knowledge of these obscure matters as yet extends, any clue to its value ...

While he accomplished much as an important public literary and political figure with a worldwide reputation, his very creative work did decline.

The parties were at a stalemate, and Gilbert wrote, " And so ends a musical & literary association of seven years ' standing — an association of exceptional reputation — an association unequalled in its monetary results, and hitherto undisturbed by a single jarring or discordant element.

In 1659, the royalist Anglican theologian ( later Bishop of Rochester ) Thomas Sprat made his witty and literary reputation with his satirical poem To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince Oliver, Lord Protector, clearly mocking Cromwell's legal status.

Zschokke's tales, on which his literary reputation rests, are collected in several series, Bilder aus der Schweiz ( Pictures from Switzerland, 5 vols., 1824 – 25 ), Ausgewählte Novellen und Dichtungen ( 16 vols., 1838 – 39 ).

This Gascon " literary fad " was unpopular in Provence in the early 13th century, harming the reputation of the poets associated with it.

Trollope's literary reputation dipped somewhat during the last years of his life, but he regained the esteem of critics by the mid-twentieth century.

His reputation as a judge endured, and in the literary composition Timarion Theophilos is featured as one of the judges in the Netherworld.

" Many thought Isherwood, who had built his own literary reputation by then and was studying Indian philosophy, was the basis for the book ’ s hero.

He spent the greater part of his life in the little town of Wandsbeck, where he earned his first literary reputation by editing from 1771 to 1775, a newspaper called Der Wandsbecker Bothe ( The Wandsbeck Messenger ) ( Wandsbeck until the year 1879 still written with " ck ".

Gorky ’ s reputation as a unique literary voice from the bottom strata of society and as a fervent advocate of Russia's social, political, and cultural transformation grew.

His lasting reputation rests principally on the theory of literary criticism that he developed in Anatomy of Criticism ( 1957 ), one of the most important works of literary theory published in the twentieth century.

France has the reputation of being a " literary culture ", and this image is reinforced by such things as the importance of French literature in the French educational system, the attention paid by the French media to French book fairs and book prizes ( like the Prix Goncourt, Prix Renaudot or Prix Femina ) and by the popular success of the ( former ) literary television show " Apostrophes " ( hosted by Bernard Pivot ).

Over the ensuing four decades he worked on his own writings, his British literary reputation growing slowly, and also became an established translator of French works into English.

His change of surname in 1945 necessarily meant abandoning the literary reputation he had built up as R. P. Russ, and although he returned to writing after the war, when he moved to rural Wales, his non-fiction anthology A Book of Voyages ( 1947 ) attracted little attention.

In that sense the pages of literary history are peopled with shadows: Aquilius Gallus, Quintus Hortensius Hortalus, Lucius Licinius Lucullus and many others who left a reputation but no readable works ; they are to be presumed in the Golden Age by their associations.

Bailly also gained a high literary reputation by his Éloges of King Charles V of France, Lacaille, Molière, Pierre Corneille and Gottfried Leibniz, which were issued in collected form in 1770 and 1790.

During the whole of the July monarchy he was one of the chief dispensers of literary patronage in France, but in his later years his reputation declined.

* The Big Knockover ( Random House, 1966 ; an important collection, edited by Lillian Hellman, that helped revive Hammett's literary reputation ; includes the unfinished novel Tulip ).