Dr. Ransom was one of the Southern Agrarians and an influential literary critic. His books include God Without Thunder: An Unorthodox Defense of Orthodoxy (Harcourt Brace and Company, 1930) and The World’s Body (Kennikat Press, 1938). He taught literature at Vanderbilt University until 1937 when he moved to Kenyon College, where he established the Kenyon … Continue reading John Crowe Ransom