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Essays and articles
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--- "The Concrete Universal: Observations on the
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Letters
Ransom to Allen Tate, 5 Sept. 1926.
Ransom to Tate, c. 1927.
Ransom to Tate, undated, written sometime in the Spring of
1927.
Ransom to Tate, 5 ~ u l y i929.
For further reference see Selected Letters of
John Crowe Ransom. Ed. with an Introduction by Thomas
Daniel Young and George Core. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
UP, 1985.
Conversations
Ransom in conversation with Cleanth Brooks and R.P.
Warren. See Conversations on the Craft of Poetry. Ed.
Brooks and Warren. New York, 1961.
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Reviews
Aiken, Conrad. "The Poetic Scene." Independent 118 (26
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Beatty, Richmond Croom. "John Crowe Ransom as Poet."
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Bergonzi, Bernard. "A Poem About the History of Love:
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99.
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