Quote of the day
The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.
John Crowe Ransom
Born: April 30, 1888
Died: July 3, 1974 (aged 86)
Bio: John Crowe Ransom was an American educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, essayist and editor. He is considered to be a founder of the New Criticism school of literary criticism.
Known for:
- The new criticism (1941)
- The world's body (1938)
- Poems about God (1919)
- Selected Poems (1963)
- The Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom