Re: John Crowe Ransom, the Fugitive
- From: "David Starner" <prosfilaes@[redacted]>
- Subject: Re: John Crowe Ransom, the Fugitive
- Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 13:10:12 -0600
On 10/31/06, Roger Sperberg <rsperberg@[redacted]> wrote:
> I learned recently that John Crowe Ransom's book, Chills and Fever, which
> contains the poem, "Here Lies a Lady" (...of beauty and high degree, / Of
> chills and fever she died, of fever and chills.) was published in 1924.
>
> Many (all? some?) of the poems appeared in The Fugitive, which seems to have
> published from 1922 - 1925.
>
> Does anyone on this list know if any poems from Ransom's book are in the
> public domain?
>
> I wonder how one goes about researching something like this, from an
> internet connection with no specific access to print documents. My interest
> is theoretical, as I am not intending to publish these poems even if they
> are p.d.
The only serious way to do this is to find facsimile copies of the
Fugitive, or very trustworthy transcriptions, and look at what they
have. Even if a particular poem was originally published in an edition
of the Fugitive that is in the public domain, he may have changed the
poem before publishing it in the book.