Word: ransomes
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...Bollingen committee knew all that. Tennessee-born John Ransom, professor of poetry at Ohio's Kenyon College and editor of the Kenyon Review, has published no verse since his Selected Poems in 1945. The award, said Conrad Aiken, committee chairman, was based on Ransom's "contribution to American poetry...
When Yale awarded the annual Bollingen Prize* in poetry (and $1,000) to John Crowe Ransom, no one was more surprised than John Crowe Ransom. Said that self-effacing poet, teacher and critic...
...contribution that few Americans know about-whether from lack of interest or pure defensive caution. Following a modern poet up a mental slope carries real danger of getting hopelessly lost above the tree line of meaning. Lucid, logical John Ransom is not that kind of poet. Much of his poetry is as transparent as a weather report. As skillful in craft as he is slender in output, he can write movingly and hauntingly about the death of a small child, as in Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter...
...naping"' begins as a summertime lark, soon burgeons into a well-organized, well-paying racket whose wealthy victims are invariably demoralized by the sight of the gang's own dog picking up the ransom at the payoff rendezvous. When the spoils grow too large for the nine youngsters to spend safely on themselves, they transform Montmartre with such anonymous good deeds as giving an elderly couple the funds for a marriage license to celebrate 40 years of unwedded bliss...
...prisoners. But after six years in the army and five years in captivity, he was no nearer to either of his goals than he had been at 22. For his four daring attempts to escape from his Moorish captors, he spent ten months chained in a cell. When the ransom money finally came, he returned to a Spain that had all but forgotten the heroes of Lepanto, and that could not spare him a pension. The 36-year-old veteran settled down to manufacture a blizzard of uninspired poems, unsuccessful plays and a pastoral novel, while his illegitimate daughter...