ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -John Crowe Ransom, The New Criticism (Norfolk, Conn., 1941). I. A. Richards, Principles of Literary Criticism (London, 1924).

Detailed explanation-2: -John Crowe Ransom was one of the leading poets of his generation. A highly respected teacher and critic, Ransom was intimately connected to the early 20th-century literary movement known as the Fugitives, later the Southern Agrarians.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ransom’s literary studies include God Without Thunder (1930); The World’s Body (1938), in which he takes the position that poetry and science furnish different but equally valid knowledge about the world; Poems and Essays (1955); and Beating the Bushes: Selected Essays, 1941–1970 (1972).