Southern poets The Fugitive literary magazine published 19221925 formal poetry concrete imagery rural Southern experience wanted to prove that the South could produce intellectual art later called the Southern Agrarians ID: 291280
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FugitivesSouthern poetsThe Fugitive literary magazine published 1922-1925formal poetry, concrete imageryrural Southern experiencewanted to prove that the South could produce intellectual artlater called the “Southern Agrarians”Slide2
Allen Tate, Merrill Moore, Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson May 4, 195630-minute video on The Fugitive PoetsAbout 1915 , a group of teachers and students from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee started meeting to discuss literature. They became known as the “Fugitives.”Slide3
Allen Tate(1899-1979)
Born & raised in Kentucky
Editor of
The Fugitive
Published several collections of poetrySlide4
John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)Was one of the original members of The Fugitives
Entered Vanderbilt
University
at age
15
Taught at Vanderbilt University (Tennessee) and later Kenyon College (Ohio)
Here lies a lady of beauty and high degree.
Of chills and fever she died, of fever and chills,
The delight of her husbands, her aunts, an infant of three,
And of medicos marveling sweetly on her ills.
And weeping fast as she had breath
Janet implored us, "Wake her from her sleep!"
And would not be instructed in how deep
Was the forgetful kingdom of death.
From “Chills and Fever” (1924)
From “Janet Waking” (1927)Slide5
Robert Penn Warren(1905-1989)Poet
Born in Kentucky
Entered Vanderbilt Univ. 1921
University teacher
Won three Pulitzer Prizes
United States Poet Laureate (1986-1987)
Wrote about Southern settings, politics and moralsSlide6Slide7
Merrill Moore (1903-1957)From TennesseeM.D. from Vanderbilt 1928
Famous for poetry, but a good psychiatrist, too
Wrote thousands of sonnets
Bronze star &
commenda-tion
medal in WW2
Friends with Poets Robert Frost and Robert LowellSlide8
Donald Grady Davidson (1893-1968)
From Tennessee
Vanderbilt University graduate
Vanderbilt University English professor 1920-1968
Co-editor and co-founder of
The Fugitive
magazine
Edited this book, published in 1924