John Crowe Ransom (April 30, 1888 - July 3, 1974) was an American poet, essayist, & social commentator.

John Crowe Ransom was natural inside Pulaski, Tennessee. He was the boy of a Methodist minister.

At age 15, Ransom entered Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee and graduated from that institution inside 1909 at age 21. From either 1910 to 1913 he was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in England.

Around 1914 Ransom was appointed to the English department at Vanderbilt. His career was interrupted by World War I where he served as an artillery officer in France.

When a war, Ransom returned to Vanderbilt as a member of the English department faculty. He was associated sustaining a class action of writers there called a Fugitives.

Inside 1930 Ransom joined with Eleven more Southern Agrarians to publish the agrarian manifesto I'll Require Our Could have which bemoaned a tide of modernism that appeared to be sweeping away traditional southern & Our contries culture. In the 1930s Ransom published various essays influenced by his agrarian beliefs, however by 1945 Ransom turned away from a farming position.

His collection of essays, God While forgoing Thunder was published therein equivalent month which was followed by ii more volumes, The World's Immune system around 1938 and The Future Criticism inside 1941.

Within 1937 Ransom departed Vanderbilt and accepted the position at Kenyon College in Ohio.

Around 1945 his Selected Poems was published. When reach Kenyon he became a editor of the Kenyon Review and remained in that position until 1959.

Inside 1966 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Around 1972 a collection of unpublished essays from a Kenyon Review were published.

Ransom died within Gambier, Ohio. He is buried behind Chalmers Library on the campus of Kenyon College.