John Crowe Ransom &

John Crowe Ransom & (HM8ZT)

Location: Gambier, OH 43022 Knox County
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Country: United States of America
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N 40° 22.568', W 82° 23.911'

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The Kenyon Review

Side A:
In 1938 the president of Kenyon College, Gordon Keith Chalmers, brought one of the nation's most distinguished poets and critics, John Crowe Ransom, to the Gambier Hill. Chalmers brought Ransom to Kenyon College to create a distinguished literary review. With its first appearance late in 1938, The Kenyon Review would become one of the most influential and honored literary magazines in America. Among the authors Ransom published during his two decades as editor were Robert Penn Warren, William Empson, Flannery O'Connor, Doris Lessing, Robert Lowell, and Randall Jarrell. The Kenyon Review also became closely identified with the "New Criticism," a method of interpreting literature that influenced succeeding generations of readers and teachers around the world.(Continued other side)

Side B:
(Continued from other side)Aspiring writers made pilgrimages to Gambier to work with John Crowe Ransom. Poet Robert Lowell transferred from Harvard to Kenyon College to study with Ransom in 1938. Peter Taylor, one of America's greatest short story writers, soon appeared as well and became Lowell's roommate in Douglass House. (See Taylor's story "1939.") Others there included Randall Jarrell and Robie Macauley. Along with F.O. Matthiessen and Lionel Trilling, Ransom founded the Kenyon School of English in 1948. The school operated for several summers and brought together students for the study of literature at the graduate level. In the 1940s and 50s, talented younger writers continued to arrive, including E.L. Doctorow and James Wright.

Details

HM Number	HM8ZT
Series	This marker is part of the Ohio: Ohio Historical Society series
Tags	20th Century, Arts Letters Music, Education, People
Marker Number	6-42
Year Placed	2003
Placed By	Ohio Bicentennial Commission and The Ohio Historical Society
Marker Condition	No reports yet
Date Added	Thursday, October 9th, 2014 at 2:54pm PDT -07:00

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UTM (WGS84 Datum)	17T E 381278 N 4470444
Decimal Degrees	40.37613333, -82.39851667
Degrees and Decimal Minutes	N 40° 22.568', W 82° 23.911'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds	40° 22' 34.08" N, 82° 23' 54.66" W
Driving Directions	Google Maps
Area Code(s)	740
Closest Postal Address	At or near 104 W Wiggin St, Gambier OH 43022, US
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