John Crowe Ransom's Secular Faith

by Kieran Quinlan

Book Overview

Recent interest in the life and works of John Crowe Ransom has brought to light the many apparent contradictions and discontinuities in the career of this important man of letters. A noted poet, Ransom chose to devote his energies primarily to the composition of prose. A southern agrarian in the 1930s, he later rejected the movement as nostalgic and unrealistic. But perhaps more central to his development as a man of letters, he came to renounce...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807124680
• ISBN13: 9780807124680
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 8.0"