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Died. Erskine Gwynne, 49, dilettante Paris publisher of the expatriate era; after long illness; in Manhattan. A great-nephew of the late Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, he brought out the Paris Boulevardier in 1927, attracted to the magazine such contributors as Michael Arlen, Noel Coward, Ernest Hemingway...
Every other Saturday night, a little circle of up-&-coming poets got together in a Nashville parlor to bandy verses. The natural leader of the group was a courtly young (33) instructor of English at Vanderbilt University, John Crowe Ransom. Allen Tate, who was one of that group in the early '20s, has said: "There was never so much talent, knowledge and character accidentally brought together in one American place in our time." Some of them: Robert Penn Warren, Laura Riding, Donald Davidson, Merrill Moore...
Remembered Exile. All the Fugitives except Davidson have long since fled Vanderbilt and the South, but some are still favorably remembered-and particularly John Crowe Ransom. Last week Ransom, now a professor at Ohio's little Kenyon College (and editor of the Kenyon Review), celebrated his 60th birthday. In his honor, the Sewanee Review, the oldest of U.S. literary quarterlies, has devoted its entire forthcoming summer number to an estimate of Ransom as poet, critic and teacher...
...itinerant Methodist preacher, John Ransom was born and raised in Tennessee, educated at Vanderbilt and Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar). After a dismal year as a prep-school Latin teacher, he taught English at Vanderbilt (with time out for World War I) for 23 years. Until the Fugitives woke him from his "dogmatic slumber," Ransom was a conventional teacher who took few pains to inspire his students. The bumptious crop of younger Fugitives stimulated him both as poet and teacher. Ransom, say his admirers in the Sewanee Review, did not try to dominate; he attained more enduring effects...
Ransom left Vanderbilt in 1937 for a variety of reasons, among them the low pay (after 23 years, a reported $3,600). At Kenyon he became professor of poetry, gathered another galaxy of bright lights around him,* and in 1939 founded the Kenyon Review, one of the most distinguished of U.S. little magazines...