Discuss the role of John Crowe Ransom in 20th Century American Poetry. 

 He believed in the poetic virtues of irony and complexity, and the importance of adhering to traditional prosodic techniques of meter, stanza, and rhyme. His own poems are marked by irony, a spare classicism, and a concern with the inevitable decay of all things human.

He was a guiding member of the Fugitives, a group of writers who were wary of the social and cultural changes they were witnessing in the South during the early part of the twentieth century. The Fugitives sought to preserve a traditional aesthetic ideal which was firmly rooted in classical values and forms. As a critic, he had an enormous influence on an entire generation of poets and fellow academics, who subscribed to the doctrines he laid out as the “New Criticism.” His ideals were derived from John Donne and the English metaphysical poetry of the seventeenth century.

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 ___ ___ ____ _______ _________ _________ __________ ___.
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