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Bibliography

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POETRY

  • Poems about God, Holt, 1919, reprinted, Folcroft, 1972.
  • Armageddon (poem; bound with A Fragment by William Alexander Percy and Avalon by Donald Davidson), Poetry Society of South Carolina, 1923.
  • Chills and Fever (poems), Knopf, 1924 , reprinted, Folcroft, 1972.
  • Grace after Meat (poems), introduction by Robert Graves, L. & V. Woolf, 1924.
  • Two Gentlemen in Bonds (poems), Knopf, 1927.
  • Selected Poems, Knopf, 1945, reprinted, Richard West, 1977, 3rd revised edition, Knopf, 1969. OTHER
  • God without Thunder: An Unorthodox Defense of Orthodoxy (essays), Harcourt, 1930, reprinted, Shoe String, 1965.
  • (With others) I'll Take My Stand (essays), Harper, 1930.
  • (Editor) Topics for Freshman Writing, Holt, 1935.
  • The World's Body (essays), Scribner, 1938, reprinted, Louisiana State University Press, 1968.
  • The New Criticism (essays), New Directions, 1941, reprinted, Greenwood Press, 1979.
  • (Contributor) Donald A. Stuffer, editor, The Intent of the Critic, Princeton University Press, 1941, reprinted, Peter Smith, 1963.
  • Poetics (essays), New Directions, 1942.
  • A College Primer of Writing, Holt, 1943.
  • (Editor) The Kenyon Critics: Studies in Modern Literature from the "Kenyon Review," World Publishing, 1951, reprinted, Kennikat, 1967.
  • Poems and Essays, Vintage Books, 1955.
  • Exercises on the Occasion of the Dedication of the New Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall, the College of William and Mary in Virginia (an address), College of William and Mary, 1958.
  • (With Delmore Schwartz and John Hall Wheelock) American Poetry at Mid-Century (lectures), Library of Congress, 1958, reprinted, Norwood, 1977.
  • (Editor) Thomas Hardy, Selected Poems, Macmillan, 1961.
  • (With others) Symposium on Formalist Criticism, University of Texas, 1967.
  • Beating the Bushes: Selected Essays, 1941-1970, New Directions, 1972.
  • Selected Essays of John Crowe Ransom, edited by Thomas D. Young and John Hindle, Louisiana State University Press, 1984.
  • Selected Letters of John Crowe Ransom, edited by Young and George Core, Louisiana State University Press, 1985.
  • 1959-71Also author of an unpublished book on aesthetics, 1926. Co-founder, editor, and publisher, Fugitive, 1922-25.Kenyon Review, founder and editor, editor emeritus.