... social, historical, and biographical considerations. During this time from 1930 to 1941 he wrote God Without Thunder which attacks modern secularism, The World's Body where he asserts the superiority of literature over science, and The New Criticism which contains his major statements about literary criticism. However most of Ransom's verse was written in the 1920's in three volumes, Poems About God, Chills ... and Fever, and Town Gentlemen in Bonds. His poetry had common themes of love, death and mutability. He believed that poetry showed humans their true limitations and leads to self...

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