Kermode, Frank. “The Savage Life”. London Review of Books, pp. 3-5.
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John Crowe Ransom
Standard Name: Ransom, John Crowe
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | William Empson | The book was a resounding success, widely recommended by T. S. Eliot
in Britain and by John Crowe Ransom
in the USA. |
| Author summary | Edna St Vincent Millay | ESVM
was a charismatic American poet of the earlier twentieth century, who through her lifestyle came to stand for the sexually and economically liberated woman of the 1920s. She wrote particularly sonnets, love lyrics, and... |
| Literary responses | Edna St Vincent Millay | A propos reading her poetry in public, ESVM
found she was characterized . . . in a way that compromised her as a poet. Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House. 260 |
| Literary responses | Flannery O'Connor | There too her class was visited by John Crowe Ransom
, who was impressed by her stories but stopped in his reading aloud of one of them when he encountered (in dialogue) the word nigger... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Laura Riding | Her first marriage, on 2 November 1920, while she was still an undergraduate at Cornell, was to historian Louis Gottschalk
(then a graduate student). Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books. 28 |
| Literary responses | Rebecca West | The Thinking Reed received high praise from contemporary reviewers, including Elizabeth Bowen
and John Crowe Ransom
. Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton. 145 |
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