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Edward Austin fellowships to: Howard F. Bennett 1G & G. Ed. John T. Black, Sorbonne, Paris. Harold W. Davey 2G. Bayard Cutting Fellowship for Research in Physics, Ivan A. Getting, Junior Fellow. George and Martha Derby scholarship, George F. Cronkhite '38. Du Pont fellowship, Willard Weaver Ransom, 3G. George H. Emerson-scholarships to: Saul G. Cohen, 1G. John B. Lyons, '38, Edmund W. Sinnott Jr. '38, Ralph I. Smith '38. Charles Haven Goodwin scholarship, Allen R. Hyde 2G. Ozias Goodwin memorial fellowship, Harvey S. Perloff 2G. William Watson Goodwin, fellowships to: Albert H. Travis 2G, Frederic Peachy 2G. Harris fellowship, Lawrence...
...mediocre critics, but they are hopelessly trivial. These triumphs in the treble of Marya Zaturenska and the glibness of Robert Hillyer have evidently rung louder in the cars of the Pulitzer Committee in recent years than the works of such really outstanding American poets as Tate, Stevens, Eberhart and Ransom, all of whom are of immeasurably greater stature...
...review of a novel by Rebecca West. It includes a highly civilized polishing off of Philosopher George Santayana, a neat dismemberment of T. S. Eliot for Murder in the Cathedral, similarly effective attacks on Edna St. Vincent Millay and Critic I. A. Richards. A polite executioner, Professor Ransom never fails to call attention to the courage of his victims, to the elegance of their dress and manners; and he is willing to let the final blow fall gently, so long as he knows that it is final...
Professor Ransom does not so much defend the obscurity of modern poets as give a lucid explanation of its cause. He says that poets, once bards, patriots and men of public importance, now seem wilfully determined to destroy the prestige that their predecessors have courted for generations. If they write "pure" poetry, like Wallace Stevens, their poems have no moral, political, religious, or sociological values, and their technical dexterity is spent on subjects that have no importance. If they write "obscure" poetry, like Allen Tate, their subjects are important, but they deliberately complicate their lines as if afraid of being...
...just as archaic diction seems false, so does archaic temper, and living poets' art must be as "contemporaneous as our banking or our locomotion." In the modern world people seek "isolated perfections" in the different realms of human life, poets no less than others. Professor Ransom deplores this, because it makes the beauty of "pure" poetry cloistered and the beauty of "obscure" poetry teasing and evasive. As a means of bringing poetry back to the position it once held, he suggests that writers study those elements in human experience that cannot be dissociated. But, he says, he makes...