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    John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) was an American educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, and editor who helped found the New Criticism school of literary criticism. He was the first editor of the influential Kenyon Review. Ransom argued that literary criticism should focus solely on analyzing the text itself rather than external factors like the author's biography or historical context. Specifically, he believed criticism should exclude personal impressions, summaries, historical studies, linguistic analyses, and moral judgments. Instead, criticism should receive its own authority to conduct technical studies of elements within the text like poetry, rhetoric, and language. Ransom's views emphasized close reading and interpretation of the literal words on the page.

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    John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) was an American educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, and editor who helped found the New Criticism school of literary criticism. He was the first editor of the influential Kenyon Review. Ransom argued that literary criticism should focus solely on analyzing the text itself rather than external factors like the author's biography or historical context. Specifically, he believed criticism should exclude personal impressions, summaries, historical studies, linguistic analyses, and moral judgments. Instead, criticism should receive its own authority to conduct technical studies of elements within the text like poetry, rhetoric, and language. Ransom's views emphasized close reading and interpretation of the literal words on the page.

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    JOHN CROWE RANSOM

    John Crowe Ransom (1888 –1974) was an American


    educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, essayist and editor.
    He is considered to be a founder of the New Criticism
    school of literary criticism. He was the first editor of the
    widely regarded Kenyon Review. Highly respected as a
    teacher and mentor to a generation of accomplished
    students, he also was a prize-winning poet and essayist.

    Ransom’s position is that the critic must study literature,


    not about literature. According to Ransom, criticism
    should exclude: 1) personal impressions, because the
    critical activity should “cite the nature of the object
    rather than its effects upon the subject”. 2) synopsis and
    paraphrase, since the plot or story is an abstraction from
    the real content of the text; 3) historical studies, which
    might include literary backgrounds, biography, literary
    sources, and analogues; 4) linguistic studies, which
    include identifying allusions and meanings of words; 5)
    moral content, since this is not the whole content of the
    text; 6) “Any other special studies which deal with some
    abstract or prose content taken out of the work”.
    Ransom demands that criticism, whose proper province
    includes technical studies of poetry, metrics, tropes, and
    should “receive its own charter of rights and function
    independently”. His arguments have often been
    abbreviated into a characterization of New Criticism as
    focusing on “the text itself ” or “the words on the page”.

    SUBMITTED BY
    Samuel Benson.L
    [18-UEL-059]
    [Department of English]

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