[Rarebooks] FS: Archive of Correspondence from John Crowe Ransom

[Charles Agvent]

In the next two or three weeks we will be posting a new catalogue on our 
website containing TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS, LETTERS, & 
PHOTOGRAPHS.   Most will be American authors, and there will be some 
exceptional pieces.  Listed below is one of the items typical of the 
general quality of the pieces that will be listed.  We will be posting 
Nineteenth Century items at a much later date.

RANSOM, John Crowe. ARCHIVE OF CORRESPONDENCE to  author/literary
critic  Vivienne  Koch. Gambier, OH: 1950-53. Contains  two  AUTOGRAPH
LETTERS  SIGNED  (ALSs)  and two TYPED LETTERS  SIGNED  (TLSs)  with a
total  of  6  pages dated 10 August 1950 to 10 December 1953,  all  on
KENYON  REVIEW stationery. Ransom initiates the correspondence  with a
long  HOLOGRAPH three-page response to her essay about his poetry that
had  appeared  in  the  Spring 1950 issue of THE  SEWANEE  REVIEW.  He
admits  to  squirming at a good many points of detail and goes  on  to
reject  many of her views concerning his poems. In passing he  remarks
on  Stevens, Cummings, Frost, Donne, Browning, Hardy, and Yeats. Other
letters  mention  writing  essays for THE KENYON REVIEW,  proofs,  and
parties.  Koch introduced Ransom to the poetry of W. S. Graham and was
considered  an important exponent of the New Criticism, having written
a  volume  in  the  New  Directions   series,  THE  MAKERS  OF  MODERN
LITERATURE,  on William Carlos Williams. For a time she was married to
Norman  Macleod.  An interesting archive with one exceptional  letter.
About Fine                                                    $1500.00

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