Chills and Fever
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924.
Price: $400.00
Hardcover. First edition, first binding. Spine label and edges of the boards rubbed, else a near very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. From the library of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Peter Taylor and his wife, the National Book Award-nominated poet Eleanor Ross Taylor, with her bookplate and ownership Signature. A founding member of The Fugitives, Ransom was a major influence on Peter Taylor, whom he taught at Kenyon College.
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John Crowe Ransom
birth name: John Crowe Ransom
born: 4/30/1888
died: 7/4/1974
nationality: USA
Biography
American poet and critic, leading theorist of the Southern literary renaissance that began after World War I. Ransom's The New Criticism (1941) provided the name for the influential mid-20th Century school of criticism. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore