John Crowe Ransom Papers
1908-1976

Box Listing

Series I. Correspondence

1. Outgoing Correspondence: Jan. 22, 1911 - Oct. 29, 1911
2. Outgoing Correspondence: Nov. 6, 1911 - Dec. 28, 1911
3. Outgoing Correspondence: Jan. 14, 1912 - Mar. 26, 1912
4. Outgoing Correspondence: Apr. 4, 1912 - Jun. 10, 1912
5. Outgoing Correspondence: July 5, 1912 - Dec. 26, 1912
6. Outgoing Correspondence: Jan. 3, 1913 - Mar. 28, 1913
7. Outgoing Correspondence: Apr. 9, 1913 - July 31, 1913
8. Outgoing Correspondence: Aug. 13, 1913 - Dec. 15, 1913
9. Outgoing Correspondence: Jan. 9, 1914 - Jun. 2, 1914
10. Outgoing Correspondence: May 20, 1917 - Oct. 29, 1917
11. Outgoing Correspondence: Nov. 12, 1917 - Dec. 23, 1917
12. Outgoing Correspondence: Jan. 14, 1918 - June 27, 1918
13. Outgoing Correspondence: 1920
14. Outgoing Correspondence: Sept. 6, 1921 - Oct. 18, 1921
15. Outgoing Correspondence: Oct. 19, 1921 - Nov. 19, 1921
16. Outgoing Correspondence: Nov. 20, 1921 - Dec. 15, 1921
17. Outgoing Correspondence: an. 1922 - Feb. 1922
18. Outgoing Correspondence: 1923
19. Outgoing Correspondence: Jun. 6, 1926 - [1938]
20. Outgoing Correspondence: 1963 - 1972 (mostly fragments and drafts)
21. Outgoing Correspondence: Transcriptions (1911 - 1912)
22. Incoming Correspondence: Ackerman - Arnold
23. Incoming Correspondence: Bann - Dean
24. Incoming Correspondence: Bell - Bujalski
25. Incoming Correspondence: Burke - Chvala
26. Incoming Correspondence: Claire - Curran

1. Incoming Correspondence: Daniel - Durrett
2. Incoming Correspondence: Eckel - Ezell
3. Incoming Correspondence: Falkenham - Frye
4. Incoming Correspondence: Gama - Gunther
5. Incoming Correspondence: Haas - Hurley
6. Incoming Correspondence: Jacoby - Junnarkar
7. Incoming Correspondence: Kammen - Kreutz
8. Incoming Correspondence: Lanier - Lytle
9. Incoming Correspondence: MacCaffrey - Munson
10. Incoming Correspondence: Nare - Ostroff
11. Incoming Correspondence: Pace - Putnam
12. Incoming Correspondence: Rachal - Reynolds
13. Incoming Correspondence: Rice - Rudnick
14. Incoming Correspondence: Sakmyster - Silvers
15. Incoming Correspondence: Simmons - Simpson
16. Incoming Correspondence: Smith - Swartz
17. Incoming Correspondence: Tate - Tuony
18. Incoming Correspondence: Unger - Voss
19. Incoming Correspondence: Wagner - Watkins
20. Incoming Correspondence: Watts - Wright
21. Incoming Correspondence: Yoken - Zabel
22. Incoming Correspondence: Unidentified: Bob - Tom
23. Incoming Correspondence: Unidentified: Fragments
24. Incoming Correspondence: Miscellaneous: March 13, 1913
25. Incoming Correspondence: Miscellaneous: 1950-1951

Series II. Writings

1. Poetry: Unpublished
   • "Daily", Typescript, 1 page
   • "Hallowe'en Poem", Photocopy of Typescript, 1 page
   • "I Would Do Violence", Typescript, 1 page
   • "Mother and Child", Typescript, 1 page
   • "My Dog", Typescript with corrections, 1 page
   • "Question and Answer", Typescript, 1 page
   • "This Lady", Typescript, 1 page
2. Poetry: Published (1 of 2)
   • "Agitato Ma Non Troppo", Typescript, photocopy of incomplete typescript and photocopy from published version (New York Review), with corrections, 3 pages
   • "Antique Harvesters", Typescript with corrections, 3 pages, one titled "Harvesters for the Lady"
   • "Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter", Typescript and photocopy from publication, 3 pages
   • "Birthday of the Seer", Typescript with corrections, 1 page
   • "Blue Girls", Typescript, 1 page
   • "Captain Carpenter", Typescript with corrections, 2 pages
   • "Cloak Model", Typescript with corrections, 1 page
   • "Dead Boy", Typescript and photocopy from publication, 2 pages
   • "Dog", Typescript with corrections, 1 page
   • "Eclogue", Typescript with corrections, 3 pages
   • "Emily Hardcastle, Spinster", Typescript and photocopy from publication, 2 pages
   • "First Travels of Max", Typescript with corrections, 1 page
   • "Four Threesomes; or Three Foursomes?", Typescript with corrections, 1 page
   • "Grim Wedlock", Typescript with corrections, 1 page (variant of "In Process of a Noble Alliance")
   • "Her Eyes", Typescript, 1 page
   • "Here Lies a Lady", Page from publication, with corrections, 1 page
   • "Janet Waking", Photocopy from publication, 2 pages
   • "Judith of Bethulia", Typescript with corrections, 1 page
   • "Man Without Sense of Direction", Typescript with corrections, 1 page
   • "Master's in the Garden Again", Typescript with corrections, 10 pages
   • "Miller's Daughter", Typescript with corrections, 4 pages
   • "Miriam Tazewell", Typescript with corrections and photocopy from publication, 2 pages
   • "Miss Euphemia", Typescript with corrections, 1 page
   • "Moments of Minnie", Typescript with corrections, 1 page
   • "Necrological", Typescript with corrections, 1 page
3. Poetry: Published (2 of 2)
   • "Of Margaret", Typescript with corrections, 1 page
   • "Old Mansion", Typescript with corrections, 5 pages
   • "On the Road to Wockensutter", Typescript with corrections, 1 page
   • "Parting at Dawn", Typescript, 1 page
   • "Parting, Without a Sequel", Typescript, 1 page
   • "Piazza Piece", Typescript and photocopy from publication, 3 pages
   • "The Rose", Typescript with correction, 1 page
   • "Survey of Literature", Typescript and photocopy from publication, with corrections, 5 pages (also titled "Roll-Call of Eminent Poets and How They Subsisted")
   • "These Winters and Those", Typescript with corrections, 1 page
   • "Two in August", Typescript with corrections, 1 page
   • "The Vanity of the Bright Young Men", Typescript with corrections, 9 pages (also titled "Tom, Tom, The Piper's Son")
   • "Vision by Sweetwater", Typescript with corrections, 2 pages
   • "What Ducks Require", Typescript with corrections, 1 page
   • "Winter Remembered", Photocopy from publication, 1 page
4. Poetry: Anthology (1 of 3). Anthology, Typescript partial table of contents and miscellaneous poems by various American and English poets (c. 100 items), some with annotation. Appears to be a draft of a proposed anthology of poetry, though some poems may have been typed for use in a lecture or reading. List of poets and authors provided in file.
5. Poetry: Anthology (2 of 3). Same as above.
6. Poetry: Anthology (3 of 3). Same as above.
7. Prose: "The Creative Artist In America". Holograph speech or lecture (possibly given at Penn State), 13 pages.
8. Prose: "Editorial Note: The Meters". Holograph editorial note apparently for the Kenyon Review, 3 pages.
9. Prose: "Empirics in Politics". Issue of the Kenyon Review (Vol. XV, Autumn, 1953), with this essay revised by hand and to which are appended 4 pages of holograph notes apparently for the version that appeared in Poems and Essays (1955).
10. Prose: "Fifty Years of American Verse". Typescript fragment with corrections, c. 1961, 5 pages.
11. Prose: "The Final Cause of Poetry". Multiple typescript drafts with corrections and holograph notes of a speech given to Lambda Iota Tau Fraternity, c. [1966], 41 pages.
12. Prose: "The Idea of a Literary Anthropologist". Holograph draft (lacking first page), probably of the article by this title, which was published in the Kenyon Review [1959], 15 pages.
13. Prose: "Introduction". Typescript fragment with corrections of the Introduction to Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy (1960), 10 pages.
14. Prose: "Thomas Hardy". Typescript with corrections of an entry that appeared in The Concise Encyclopedia of English and American Poets and Poetry, 5 pages. (See correspondence from Tony Raven and Jocelyn Selson for further information regarding this project.)
15. Prose: "Land". Typescript with corrections, consisting of four chapters:
    • Preface, 7 pages
    • "Homeless People and Vacant Land," 21 pages
    • "The Excess of Capital," 32 pages
    • "Some Proposed Extinguishers," 31 pages
    • "The Amphibian Farmer," 35 pages
16. Prose: "A Little Bit of Nostalgia, And A Note Of Hope". Typescript with correction, probably a speech about Robert Lowell, c. [1961], 4 pages.
17. Prose: Masters and Friends, "Introduction" (1 of 2). Typescript and holograph drafts with corrections, of an Introduction to Volume 9 of a fifteen volume Bollingen series of the works Paul Valery, 87 pages. (See correspondence from Jackson Mathews for more information on this project.)
18. Prose: Masters and Friends, "Introduction" (2 of 2). Continued from above.
19. Prose: "Mr. Lewis' Teeth". Typescript with corrections, 16 pages. Apparently written in response to "What Is The Use of Art, Anyway" by Coomaraswamy.
20. Prose: "New Poets and Old Muses". Typescript with corrections, 26 pages.

1. Prose: "No Hay". Typescript fragment of a short story written under the pseudonym John Creveling, 8 pages. (Verso of title page reads "No Hay by John Crowe Ra")
2. Prose: "The Poet Laureate". Typescript of an article published in the Literary Review (1924), 8 pages.
3. Prose: "The Postmaster". Typescript fragment of a short story "for the Short Story Contest," 20 pages. (Most likely written for the Sigma Upsilon contest while Ransom was a senior at Vanderbilt University, 1908-1909.)
4. Prose: "Postscript". Typescript fragment with corrections, 16 pages. (See outgoing correspondence to Richard Wentworth of October 19, 1968 for Ransom's comments on this essay.)
5. Prose: "Pound and Eliot". Typescript and holograph drafts and notes, 16 pages. Possibly part of "Fifty Years of American Verse."
6. Prose: "Religion and Poetry: Sisters But Not Twin Sisters". Typescript with corrections (lacks first page), and holograph notes, probably of a speech, c. 1958, 20 pages.
7. Prose: "The Religion of the Poets". Typescript fragment with corrections, 9 pages.
8. Prose: "Theory of Poetic Form". Typescript fragment with corrections, 9 pages.
9. Prose: Untitled (T.S. Eliot). Typescript and holograph drafts and notes of a paper or lecture about T.S. Elliot, 33 pages.
10. Prose: Untitled (Theodore Roethke). Typescript with corrections of a paper about Theodore Roethke, 12 pages.
11. Prose: Untitled (Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams). Typescript fragment with corrections (lacks first page) of a speech or lecture about Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams, c. 1963, 16 pages.
12. Miscellaneous. Unidentified typescript and holograph fragments and notes, 22 pages.
13. Published Works: Chills and Fever (1924). Ransom's annotated copy.
14. Published Works: Two Gentlemen In Bonds (1927). Ransom's annotated copy.
15. Published Works: Poems And Essays (1955). Ransom's annotated copies, (2).
16. Published Works: "Introduction" Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy. "Introduction," Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy (1961), pages iii-xxxiii initialed by Ransom.
17. Published Works: "The Planetary Poet". Pages 233-264 from the Kenyon Review (Winter, 1964).
18. Published Works: "The State of Letters". Pages 548-550, source unknown, of Ransom's acceptance speech for the National Book Award, 1964.

1. Published Works: Selected Poems (1969, 3rd Edition). Ransom's annotated copy.

Series III. Academics

2. Catalogs
   • The School of Letters, Indiana University (1951, 1963, 1969)
   • Piedmont School Manifesto (n.d.)
3. Class rolls
   • English 259 (n.d.)
   • English K581, Indiana University (Summer, 1958)
   • English 715, 2nd Quarter (1960-1961)
4. Kenyon College
   • Honors Committee Report (1940)
   • Kenyon School of English Catalog (1949)
   • Minutes of the Faculty Committee (1956)
   • Commencement Program (1959)
5. Lecture Notes
6. Programs
   • The Sixteenth Peters Rushton Seminar in Contemporary Prose and Poetry (1958) Southern Literary Festival, Mississippi State College for Women, Columbus, MS (1964)
   • National Poetry Day, Lamar State College of Technology (1964)
   • The International Poetry Forum Presents John Crowe Ransom in the First Annual Institute on Poetics (1967)
   • The International Poetry Forum, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (1967)
   • Florida Writers' Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (1970)
   • Prospectus for a Conference on Religion and Literature Conducted by the Church Society for College Work (n.d.)
7. Publications Received
   • Belhaven Briefs, (Belhaven College Newsletter, Jackson, MS, Spring, 1974)
   • Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Nov. 1972, Mar. 1973)
   • Christ Church (1961, 1966)
   • Miscellaneous from the Institute of Contemporary Arts (2 items)
   • Miscellaneous announcements from Alfred A. Knopf (5 items)
   • Prospectus from New American Review
   • Publisher's announcements from New Directions (2 items)
8. Recommendations
   • D.S. Berman
   • Elizabeth Brown
   • Thomas A. Claire
   • Charles Frederick McKinley
   • Ralph Treitel
9. Miscellaneous
   • Bibliography (c. 1964), 3 copies
   • Syllabus (Eng. XV, Instructor Mr. Mott)
   • Poems by Thomas Hardy
   • Survey on Current English Usage by Raymond D. Crisp, 1971.

Series IV. Author

10. Lists
    • List of Ransom essays
    • List of Ransom poems
    • List of various writers and works
11. Financial and Contractual
    • Royalty Statements (Knopf, 1949-1953), 4 items
    • Contract (University of Minnesota, 1962)
    • Permission to Quote (Vanderbilt University, 1967)

Series V. Editor

12. Kenyon Review: Statement of Income and Disbursements (July 1, 1957-June 30, 1958)

Series VI. Biographical

13. Clippings
    • Review of Poems About God, San Francisco Chronicle, 1919.
    • "Ghosts," printed in Harper's, 1926.
    • Review of God Without Thunder, New York Herald Tribune, 1931.
    • Memorial to Dr. John J. Ransom, Nashville Tennessean, 1934.
    • "Discovery Wonderful Says Poet in UR Visit," Richmond News, 1958.
    • "Teacher, Ex-Pupil at Kenyon Talk Only Poetry," Columbus Citizen Journal, 1968.
    • Fragment of book review of Beating the Bushes and two other books about
    • Ransom from Georgia Review, 1973.
    • Revision copy for a new cumulated edition of Contemporary Authors, c. 1965.
14. Family Papers
    • Ransom's Marriage Certificate (1920)
    • Report Cards for Robb Reavill (1909-1913), 5 items
    • Transcript (Columbia University, 1946) and Air Force Orders (1945) for Reavill Ransom Webb School Catalog (c. 1945) and Statement (1950), and Ohio State University grades for John James ("Jack") Ransom.
15. Financial Papers: Cancelled checks, deposit slips, bank statements, savings passbooks, nursing home bills (Annie Ransom), receipts, tax receipts, notes
16. Memorabilia
    • Typescripts of telegrams (35) received for the 1937 dinner honoring Ransom
    • Program for the "Dinner in Honor of the Fugitives, Belle Meade Club" (1956)
17. Notes: 13 holograph items
18. Miscellaneous
    • Passenger List, White Star Line, M.V. Britannic from New York to Liverpool (1931)
    • Pedigree for Mosnar Jane, The Kennel Club, London (1932)
    • West Cornwall Golf Club, Official Handbook (n.d.)
    • Official Rules of Croquet (1951)
    • Application for Duplicate Driver's License (Ransom, 1959)
    • Reservation Card (Harvard, 1966)
    • Child's Drawing (Roland Camire?, n.d.)
    • Advertisement (Murray Corporation, n.d.)
    • Advertisement (Montaldo's, n.d.)
19. Photographs (1 of 7). 56 items, primarily of Ransom and various family members, especially his wife Robb and her relations.
20. Photographs (2 of 7). Same as above.
21. Photographs (3 of 7). Same as above.

1. Photographs (4 of 7). Same as above.
2. Photographs (5 of 7). Same as above.
3. Photographs (6 of 7). Same as above.
4. Photographs (7 of 7). Same as above.

Series VII. Writings By Others

5. Manuscripts: Alrich, Virgil C.
   • "Cultural Viscosity - A Brief Meditation"
6. Manuscripts: Barlow, Nathan L.
   • "To Youth"
   • "Love's Creation"
   • "Remember, Solomon?"
7. Manuscripts: Benson, Anne
   • "Summer Back Yard"
   • "The Suitor"
8. Manuscripts: Berkwicz, Tom
   • "Phoenix"
   • "My Tongue"
   • "Flat lies my breast..."
   • "In golden oranges..."
9. Manuscripts: Buford, William
   • "The Ambassadors"
10. Manuscripts: Burke, Kenneth
    • "Introduction to What"
11. Manuscripts: Das, Manas Mukul
    • "Silence: The Language of Poetry"
12. Manuscripts: Davidson, Donald
    • "Introduction," to a 1966 reprint of The Fugitive. Includes corrections. Photocopy.
13. Manuscripts: Detlef, R.E.
    • "Rumble"
14. Manuscripts: Drath, Wilfred
    • "Oedipus"
    • "Five Short Poems"
15. Manuscripts: Duncan, Robert
    • "The Truth and Life of Myth in Poetry", Includes corrections, photocopy.
16. Manuscripts: Feldman, Irving
    • "Poem"
    • "The Heir"
    • "Dunkerque 1951"
    • "The Word"
    • "A Psalm"
    • "Sea, Island, Night"
    • "Dressing Hornpout"
    • "At Pasha's Greek Gardens Cafe, 1954"
    • "Party on East Tenth Street, 1955"
    • "Reredos Showing the Assumption Into Heaven of Frank O'Hara"
    • "Poet at Twelve"
    • "Dark Nights"
17. Manuscripts: Forman, Robb Reavill
    • "Summer's End", a 21 page recollection of family and summers at Gambier, OH by Ransom's granddaughter.
18. Manuscripts: Frost, Graham Nicol
    • "Golgotha"
19. Manuscripts: Gjelsness, Barent
    • "Quartet - 1963"
    • "The Women of La Rochelle"
    • "Wheatfields"
    • "Pictures"
    • "Analogy"
    • "Snow Song"
    • "Story"
    • "For Everyone"
20. Manuscripts: Hemphill, George
    • "The First Draft of Lycidas"
21. Manuscripts: Holladay, Helen H.
    • "Vanity"
22. Manuscripts: Hull, A.H.
    • "Sun"
    • "Wind"
    • "Snow"
    • "Dew"
    • "Clouds"
    • "Rain"
    • "Fog"
23. Manuscripts: Hulbert, Russell
    • "Dialogue Upon A Fall"
    • "The Spring Has Come"
    • "Song of Confederacy"
    • "The Professor and the Poet"
    • "Shakespeare"
24. Manuscripts: Jacoby, Grover
    • "Translation from 'The Antiquities of Rome' (Du Bellay)"
25. Manuscripts: Jewell, Therese
    • "Thomas Hardy's Theological Dilemma As It Appears in The Dynasts and Selected Short Poems"
26. Manuscripts: Levertov, Denise
    • "A Personal Approach", fragment, photocopy.
27. Manuscripts: Lewis, Zella
    • "Summitry"
    • "Sterling Circuit"
    • "Circuit"
28. Manuscripts: Lillit, Hazel Ransom
    • "Birthday Greeting"
    • "A Candle's Message"
29. Manuscripts: Logan, John
    • "Poem, Slow To Come, On The Death of Cummings (1896-1962)"
30. Manuscripts: Lyle, David
    • "After Reading a Few of James Dickey's Poems"
    • "We Stop"
    • "I Am The Music"
    • "Listening"
    • "Phantasma"
    • "Poem"
    • "I Used to Make"
    • "Autumn Day"
31. Manuscripts: Montgomery, Marion
    • "A Summer of Words in A Formal Garden"
    • "Prelude"
    • "As I Walk Toward The Formal Garden"
    • "The New Riding Class"
    • "A Word in the Stone"
    • "Miracle"
    • "Amber and Earth"
    • "Postlude"
    • "Ed Krickel"
32. Manuscripts: Mott, Michael
    • "The Climb"
    • "Poets"
    • "Dream about my Brother"
    • "Glastonburry Tor"
33. Manuscripts: O'Brien, Mike
    • "The little girl with chinese eyes"
34. Manuscripts: O'Donnell, George Marion
    • "Return and Other Poems"
    • "Return"
    • "John Sterling"
    • "Autumn and Mrs. Noel, Old"
    • "In the Delta, Remembering"
    • "Letter for the Confederates"
    • "Travelogue"
    • "August Afternoon"
    • "Mask of Christ"
    • "Injured Mind"
    • "Season of Dying"
    • "Lacking Art"
    • "Letter From The Hills"
    • "Ancestor"
    • "Mirrored Dead"
    • "The Rivals of My Watch"
    • "Jefferson Davis in Stone"
    • "The Negress and the Astronomer"
    • "Two Poems for a Season of Holiday"
    • "Descent of Leaf"
    • "Reprimand"
    • "Elegy"
35. Manuscripts: Olsen, Karen
36. Manuscripts: Pearce, Roy
    • "Lord Randall, My Friend..."
37. Manuscripts: Petitjean, A.M.
    • Translation of "Captain Carpenter" into French (See correspondence from Henry Church for further information.)
38. Manuscripts: Richards, I.A.
    • "Content"
    • "End of a Course"
39. Manuscripts: Rukeyser, Muriel
    • "Essay" (On "Master's in the Garden Again")
40. Manuscripts: Simmons, J. Edgar (1 of 9)
    • "Abstraction"
    • "Address to a Cannon"
    • "And Now Art's Rising Cross Is Dead"
    • "Are We Not in Times of Mass Carnage"
    • "As a Modigliani Neck"
    • "As Slowly the Dark Muscle Grew"
    • "At The Logical Wall"
    • "At The Seed and Feed"
    • "Belief"
    • "Blonde Majorette: Close-Up of her Face on TV"
    • "The Bracelet"
    • "Bright Pavilions"
41. Manuscripts: Simmons, J. Edgar (2 of 9)
    • "Child at Riverbed"
42. Manuscripts: Simmons, J. Edgar (3 of 9)
    • "Child at Riverbed"
43. Manuscripts: Simmons, J. Edgar (4 of 9)
    • "A Child Flies in a Tree"
    • "Cleopatra"
    • "Contemplation"
    • "The Creative Dialogue"
    • "Crowd"
    • "A Day and a Night in the Funhouse"
    • "The Dead Endure the Ecstatic"
    • "Death Massque for Poets"
    • "Dedicated to..."
    • "Dialogue for Winter"
    • "Discriminate Cinder Man"
    • "Eden Ways and Wars"
    • "Effluvium"
    • "Elan"
    • "Elegy for a Gentle Poet"
44. Manuscripts: Simmons, J. Edgar (5 of 9)
    • "Flaxen Light"
45. Manuscripts: Simmons, J. Edgar (6 of 9)
    • "Focus in Purgatory"
    • "The Game of Galley Galls"
    • "A Goose-Keeper's Parody of 'Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter"
    • "go-ril-la je-ho-vah"
    • "Grace"
    • "Green Grow the Rashes"
46. Manuscripts: Simmons, J. Edgar (7 of 9)
    • "The Green Key: The Drama of Mimesis as Mutation"
    • "Hell on 125th Street Revisited"
    • "I Am Freed to Praise a Bruise"
    • "In an Ivory Tower"
    • "In Memoriam (J.C. McGehee, Jr.)"
    • "Intelligence Under the Puritan Fathers"
    • "I Think of All the Untidy Men"
    • "Journeyman"
    • "Journey to Headland"
    • "just when we think we feel we start eternity"
    • "Lady in the Woods"
    • "Lone Prairie"
    • "The Long Riot Remembered"
    • "Love's Failure"
    • "The Magnetic Field"
    • "Man in His Field"
    • "Mass Death at the Friday Football Game"
    • "To Meet The Lord in Air"
    • "Metaphor"
47. Manuscripts: Simmons, J. Edgar (8 of 9)
    • "Metaphor"
    • "Modulation"
    • "Muzz and the Stuttered Corpses"
    • "Myth is Ice Cream in Redolent Summertime"
    • "The Necessity of Profane Love"
    • "Note to Walt Whitman"
    • "Osiris and the Sacraments of Erotic Hesitation"
    • "Osiris Burlesque"
48. Manuscripts: Simmons, J. Edgar (9 of 9)
    • "Osiris in a Taste of Bury"
    • "The Pain and the Fig Leaf"
    • "Parsimony"
    • "The Philosopher's Walk"
    • "Pity Pity Pretty Paris"
    • "A Plot in Indiana"
    • "The Procrastinate Players"
    • "Riddle"
    • "Ripest Riposte"
    • "The Rise of Individualism in the West"
    • "The Roots That Blanch"
    • "Santa Claus"
    • "Sedimentation"
    • "Sequel to Burlesque"
    • "Several Ghosts"
    • "Sound of Eros"
    • "A Southerner's Lament for Lincoln"
    • "Straight Lines, Triangles, and Circles"
    • "To Consummate a Pink Spring"
    • "To Sing A Moving Round"
    • "Transformation in a middleground"
    • "Traveller"
    • "Why Eden"
    • "The Windy Cleavage"
    • "Wink"
    • "Winter Estuary"

1. Manuscripts: Van Tassell, Etta May
   • "Here Lies A Lady (For John Crowe Ransom...)"
2. Manuscripts: Warren, Robert Penn
   • "Dragon-Tree", Typescript with corrections, published in 1966.
3. Manuscripts: Watkins, Edwin
   • "The God of Wars"
4. Manuscripts: Wilcox, Pat
   • "Impulse"
   • "Still Life"
   • "To Emily"
   • "Now That She Loves"
   • "Two Small Boys Play in Mid-March Sun"
   • "Evensong"
   • "I Know A Tree"
   • "In A High-Autumn Wood"
   • "To The Lady in Van Der Weyden's Frame"
   • "Sisters"
   • "Girl"
   • "Angry"
   • "They Have Always Been"
   • "Fear Death By Water"
   • "She Inadvertently Defends God"
5. Manuscripts: Wimsatt, W.K. (Jr.) and Monroe C. Beardsley
   • "The Concept of Meter: An Exercise in Abstraction"
6. Reprints: Abrams - Arnold
   • Abrams, M.H. - "Archetypal Analogies in the Language of Criticism"
   • Arnold, Aerol - "Why Structure in Fiction: A Note to Social Scientists"
7. Reprints: Babb - Burke
   • Babb, Howard S. - "The Great Gatsby and the Grotesque"; "Setting and Theme in Far From The Madding Crowd"
   • Baker, John Ross - "Ideology and Literary Studies: A Dilemma"
   • Bradford, M.E. - "Faulkner's 'Tall Men'"; "A Modern Elegy: Ransom's 'Bells for Whiteside's Daughter"
   • Burke, Kenneth - "Definition of Man"
8. Reprints: Ceserani - Frieson
   • Ceserani, Remo - "Sulle Teorie Poetiche Di John Crowe Ransom"
   • Core, George - "New Critic, Antique, Poet"
   • Dew, Charles B. - "Who Won The Secession Election in Louisiana"
   • Frost, Robert - "The Prophets Really Prophesy As Mystics, The Commentators Merely By Statistics"
   • Frierson, William C. - "Impact of French Naturalism on American Critical Opinion, 1877-1892"
9. Reprints: Harder - Kriegar
   • Harder, Kelsie B. - "John Crowe Ransom as Economist"
   • Honig, Edwin - "Re-Creating Authority in Allegory"
   • Joseph, Sister Miriam - "Hamlet: A Christian Tragedy"
   • Krieger, Murray - "After the New Criticism"
10. Reprints: Larson - Nichols
    • Larson, Clinton F. - "The Conversions of God"
    • Markovic, Vida E. - "Graham Greene in Search of God"
    • Nichols, Douglas - "The Narrative of Johnny Appleseed"; "Three Poems"
11. Reprints: Ong - Owsley
    • Ong, Walter J. - "Wit and Mystery: A Revaluation in Medieval Latin Hymnody"
    • Ostroff, Anthony - "The Poet and His Critics"
    • Owsley, Harriet Chappell - "Henry Shelton Sanford and Federal Surveillance Abroad, 1861-1865"
12. Reprints: Parks - Rago
    • Parks, Lloyd C. - "The Hidden Aspect of 'Sailing To Byzantium"
    • Pearce, Roy Harvey - "Wallace Stevens: The Last Lesson of the Master"
    • Plotinsky, Melvin L. - "The Kingdom of Infinite Space"
    • Rago, Henry - "T.S. Eliot: A Memoir and a Tribute"
13. Reprints: Rantavaara - Trilling
    • Rantavaara, Irma - "On Romantic Imagery in Virginia Wolf's The Waves"
    • Rubin, Louis D. Jr. - "Notes on a Rear-Guard Action"
    • Shapiro, Edward - "The Southern Agrarians and the Tennessee Valley Authority"
    • Stanford, Donald E. - "Yvor Winters: 1900-1968"
    • Trilling, Lionel - "Wordsworth's 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality"
14. Reprints: Utley - Wright
    • Utley, Francis Lee - "The Infernos of Lucretius and of Keats' 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
    • Wellek, Rene - "R.P. Blackmur Re-Examined"
    • Woods, Samuel H. Jr. - "'Philomela' John Crowe Ransom's Ars Poetica"
    • Wright, James - "Afterword to Far From The Madding Crowd"

Series VIII. Unidentified

15. Manuscripts
    • "Artemis at Aventine"
    • "Manhattan From the Hacienda"
    • "Proteus Part I: Flight"
    • "Pundit"
    • "The Sonnet Revisited"
    • "Illegitimate Father"
    • "Diana Upon Actaeon"
    • "Streaks of Gold at the World's Edge"
    • "Diatribe"
    • "Kind of Love"
    • "The Epicycles of Rhea"
    • "Epistle"
    • "No Country You Remember"
    • "Orpheus' Song"
    • "Waves"
    • "The White Rose"
    • "Captain Jerry"
    • "God By The Sea"
    • "Granden's Wharf"
    • "Day and Night"
16. Notes and Fragments (1 of 4)
17. Notes and Fragments (2 of 4)
18. Notes and Fragments (3 of 4)
19. Notes and Fragments (4 of 4)

Series IX. Envelopes

20. 1920
21. 1921 (1 of 2)
22. 1921 (2 of 2)
23. 1922
24. 1923 - 1933
25. Dates Undetermined

Series X. Ephemera

26. Black "Money Purse"

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