What is John Crowe Ransom?
{{Infobox person | name = John Crowe Ransom | image = John Crowe Ransom 1941.jpg | image_size = | caption = John Crowe Ransom at [[Kenyon College]] in 1941. Photo by [[Robie Macauley]]. | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1888|04|30}} | birth_place = [[Pulaski, Tennessee]], US | death_date = {{Death date and age|1974|07|03|1888|04|30}} | death_place = [[Gambier, Ohio]], US | body_discovered = | death_cause = | resting_place = Kenyon College Cemetery, Gambier, Ohio | resting_place_coordinates = <!-- {{coord|LAT|LONG|display=inline,title}} --> | nationality = American | citizenship = | other_names = | known_for = [[New Criticism]] school of [[literary criticism]] | education = | alma_mater = [[Vanderbilt University]] (B.A.)<br>[[Christ Church, Oxford]] (M.A.) | employer = [[Kenyon College]] | occupation = {{flatlist| * Educator * scholar * literary critic * poet * essayist }} | years_active = | partner = Robb Reavill | awards = Rhodes Scholarship, Bollingen Prize for Poetry, National Book Award | signature = }} '''John Crowe Ransom''' (April 30, 1888 – July 3, 1974) was an American [[poet]], [[teacher]], literary critic, and [[essayist]]. Ransom was born in [[Pulaski, Tennessee]]. He graduated from [[Vanderbilt University]] in 1909. Then he went to [[Oxford University]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=About John Crowe Ransom {{!}} Academy of American Poets|url=https://poets.org/poet/john-crowe-ransom|access-date=2023-01-30|website=poets.org}}</ref> He was teaching at Vanderbilt around 1915 when a group of students began talking about Ameican life and the writing of that time. This group of young poets, like [[Robert Penn Warren]], [[Allen Tate]], and others, started a magazine called ''The Fugitive''. This began a new movement in Southern writing.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2023-01-30|title=John Crowe Ransom|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-crowe-ransom|access-date=2023-01-30|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en}}</ref> Ransom wrote poetry before 1927. After that, he wrot