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  • In John Crowe Ransom

    …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). Ransom’s poetry, which one critic has applauded as exhibiting weighty…

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