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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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The Complete Poems (Paperback)
John Crowe Ransom; Edited by Ashby Bland Crowder; Robb Forman Dew
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R1,047
Discovery Miles 10 470
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The Complete Poems contains every poem that John Crowe Ransom
wrote, including his three books- Poems About God, Chills and
Fever, and Two Gentlemen in Bonds- as well as the additional poems
that appeared in the three editions of his Selected Poems. The
volume also collects poems that were published only in newspapers
and magazines, as well as a handful of poems that Ransom left in
manuscript at the time of his death. This variorum edition
establishes the definitive text of each poem, collating Ransom's
elaborate revisions, which he carried out throughout his lifetime.
Detailed annotations identify sources, parse obscure allusions, and
highlight the archaic language central to Ransom's poetic
technique. Edited by Ashby Bland Crowder, this volume constitutes
an authoritative scholarly edition of Ransom's poetry, providing an
essential resource for the study of twentieth-century American
literature.
The accomplished poet and scholar John Crowe Ransom made profound
contributions to twentieth-century American literature. As a
teacher at Vanderbilt University he was also a leading member of
the Southern Agrarian movement and a contributor to the movement's
manifesto I'll Take My Stand. Ransom's Land! is a previously
unpublished work that unites Ransom's poetic sensibilities with an
examination of economics at the height of the Great Depression.
Politically charged with Ransom's aesthetic beliefs about
literature and his agrarian interpretation of economics, Land! was
long thought to have been burned by its author after he failed to
find a publisher. Thankfully, the manuscript was discovered, and we
are now able to read this unique and interesting contribution to
the Southern Agrarian revival. After the publication of I'll Take
My Stand in 1930, Ransom, who provided the book's Statement of
Principles in addition to its lead essay, became convinced that the
book had not adequately proposed an economic alternative to
Northern industrialism, which had fairly obliterated the Southern
way of life. Land! was Ransom's attempt to fill this gap. In it he
presents the weaknesses inherent in capitalism and argues
convincingly that socialism is not only an inadequate alternative
but inimical to American sensibilities. He proposes instead that
agrarianism, which could flourish alongside capitalism, would
relieve the problems of unemployment and the "permanently
unemployed." In particular, he argues that what he calls the
"amphibian farmer"-who can survive in both a monetary and a
non-monetary economy- would never, so long as he relied on himself
for necessities, have to fear unemployment. America, Ransom claims,
is unique in offering this opportunity because, unlike in European
countries, land is plentiful.
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