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• John Crowe Ransom:

  The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

• John Crowe Ransom:

  And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

• John Crowe Ransom:

  Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.

• John Crowe Ransom:

  Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation exc

• John Crowe Ransom:

  It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of th

• John Crowe Ransom:

  But we moderns are impatient and destructive.

• John Crowe Ransom:

  For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the

• John Crowe Ransom:

  Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of o

• John Crowe Ransom:

  And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

• John Crowe Ransom:

  When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were pros