Question

Write short note on Ransom's views on objective and scientific criticism.

Answer 1

The New Criticism was not a well-organised critical movement, and it had no

acknowledged leader as such. However, among the members of the group, John Crowe Ransom

provided leadership in more ways than one. He gave the movement its name which was

eponymous with the title of one of his well-known books, published in 1941. He was, again,

teacher to most of the New Critics by virtue of their association with Vanderbilt University

where Ransom was a member of the faculty. Though leading the movement from the front,

Ransom can hardly be lumped together with his New Critical brethren from whom he

distinguished himself in a number of ways.