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Selected Poems Robert Penn
2,032 wordsKieran Quinlan RANSOM, John Crowe (30 Apr. l 888 - 3 July 1974), poet and critic, was born in Pulaski, Tennessee, the son of John James Ransom, a Methodist minister, and Ella Crowe. Raised in a strongly religious though also very open-minded household, the precocious Ransom entered Vanderbilt University in Nashville at age fifteen. Following graduation in 1909 and a stint as a high school teacher, he went on to study classics as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford from 1910 to 1913. Ransom was appointed ...
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Lost Forever Today
1,739 wordsMost remember it as a time of dashing young heroes on horseback, fair damsels in distress, and majestic castles hidden from the vulgarity of daily life by the cool shade of fragrant magnolia and honeysuckle. It was a time and place so far removed from today? s fast moving, billboard covered world that one could easily imagine that this lost civilization existed on some far off continent, or perhaps not at all. However, the fact remains that once upon a time the old South did exist, and there are...
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Middle Aged Man Good And Evil
1,227 wordsIn Perelandra By Samuel Budani In the novel Perelandra, by C. S. Lewis, Satan tried to tempt the untainted and sinless world of Perelandra. Satan wanted to put his foot-hold in this holy world, but the characters endured Satan s temptations, and came out victorious in the end. Satan s temptations not only occur in Perelandra, but transpire universally in all humanity. Satan took control of the body of a middle-aged man named Weston. Satan then came to be called the Un-man and tried to tempt the ...
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